An Exotic 4-sphere

EasyChair Preprint no. 9575, version 2

Abstract

It has not been known whether or not there are any exotic 4-spheres: such an exotic 4-sphere would be a counterexample to the smooth generalized Poincare conjecture in dimension 4. Some plausible candidates are given by Gluck twists, but many cases over the years were ruled out as possible counterexamples. In the paper the resulting solution to the last generalized Poincare conjecture is presented by giving a precise construction of a discrete exotic 4-sphere (Berkovich analytic spaces and the Richter-Gebert’s Universality theorem help).

Keyphrases: Berkovich analytic spaces, discrete geometry, Exotic n-spheres, Exotic smooth structures, inverse limit, Pachner moves, Piecewise-linear manifolds, Poincare conjecture, Rado graph, Richter-Gebert’s Universality theorem, simplicial complexes, Subdivisions, triangulations, Valuation, Weighted simplicial complexes

@Booklet{EasyChair:9575,
  author = {Valerii Sopin},
  title = {An Exotic 4-sphere},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 9575},

  year = {EasyChair, 2023}}