On a homotopy 4-sphere

Abstract

We give a brief survey of some facts about homotopy 4-spheres a1, then give a proof that the curious homotopy sphere constructed in a2 is in fact diffeomorphic to the standard S4, and discuss its relation to infinite order loose corks and anti-corks.

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