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2026-08-24 17:27 UTC · math.GT · math.GT

Stably exotic fillings of 3-manifolds

Daniel Kasprowski, Patrick Orson, Mark Powell, Arunima Ray

We investigate which 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds that are homeomorphic but not stably diffeomorphic, where stabilising means taking connected sum with copies of $S^2\times S^2$. We show that every closed, orientable 3-manifold admits such fillings, as do certain families of nonorientable 3-manifolds. In contrast we show that for a 3-manifold containing a 2-sided $\mathbb{RP}^2$, any two smooth, homeomorphic fillings are stably diffeomorphic.
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