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A marked tensor obstruction to four-dimensional disk embedding
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Abstract
We disprove the unrestricted four-dimensional disk-embedding conjecture. We construct immersed disks in a compact oriented smooth four-manifold with framed algebraic dual spheres satisfying the usual equivariant intersection and reduced self-intersection conditions, but with no pairwise disjoint locally flat replacements that preserve the boundary maps and induced normal framings. The obstruction holds even when the replacement disks' relative homotopy classes are not prescribed.
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