Gluck twisting roll spun knots

12 Sep 2020  ·  Patrick Naylor, Hannah Schwartz ·

We show that the smooth homotopy 4-sphere obtained by Gluck twisting the m-twist n-roll spin of any unknotting number one knot is diffeomorphic to the standard 4-sphere, for any pair of integers (m,n). It follows as a corollary that an infinite collection of twisted doubles of Gompf's infinite order corks are standard.

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