On rational blow-downs in Heegaard-Floer homology
Abstract
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Motivated by a result of L.P. Roberts on rational blow-downs in Heegaard-Floer homology, we study such operations along 3-manifolds that arise as branched double covers of $S^{3}$ along several non-alternating, slice knots.
21 pages, 14 figures
21 pages, 14 figures