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Surfaces in 4-Manifolds

Ronald Fintushel, Ronald J. Stern

dg-gaarXiv:dg-ga/9705009

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a technique, called rim surgery, which can change a smooth embedding of an orientable surface of positive genus and nonnegative self-intersection in a smooth 4-manifold while leaving the topological embedding unchanged.

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