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Smooth s-cobordisms of elliptic 3-manifolds

Weimin Chen
- 01 Jun 2006 - 
- Vol. 73, Iss: 3, pp 413-490
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The main result of as mentioned in this paper is that a smooth s-cobordism of elliptic 3-manifolds is diffeomorphic to a product (assuming a canonical contact structure on the boundary).
Abstract
The main result of this paper states that a symplectic s-cobordism of elliptic 3-manifolds is diffeomorphic to a product (assuming a canonical contact structure on the boundary). Based on this theorem, we conjecture that a smooth s-cobordism of elliptic 3-manifolds is smoothly a product if its universal cover is smoothly a product. We explain how the conjecture fits naturally into the program of Taubes of constructing symplectic structures on an oriented smooth 4-manifold with b + ≥ 1 from generic self-dual harmonic forms. The paper also contains an auxiliary result of independent interest, which generalizes Taubes’ theorem “SW ⇒ Gr” to the case of symplectic 4-orbifolds.

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