On Shake Slice Knots
Here we discuss $r-$shake slice knots, and their relation to corks, we then prove that $0$-shake slice knots are slice.
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Here we discuss $r-$shake slice knots, and their relation to corks, we then prove that $0$-shake slice knots are slice.
It is known that there is a unique concordance class in the free homotopy class of $S^1\times pt \subset S^1 \times S^2$. The constructive proof of this fact is given by the second author. It turns out that all the concordances in this construction are invertible. The knots $K\subset S^{1}\times S^{2}$ with hyperbolic complements and trivial symmetry group are special interest here, because they can be used to generate absolutely exotic compact 4-manifolds by the recipe given by Akbulut and Ruberman. Here we built absolutely exotic manifold pairs by this construction, and show that this construction keeps the Stein property of the $4$-manifolds we start out with. By using this we establish the existence of an absolutely exotic contractible Stein manifold pair, and absolutely exotic homotopy $S^1\times B^3$ Stein manifold pair.
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