On the 3-Dimensional Poincaré Conjecture and the 4-Dimensional Smooth Schoenflies Problem
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This is the announcement of an alternative approach to the 3-dimensional Poincaré Conjecture, different from Perelman's big and spectacular breakthrough. No claim concerning the other parts of the Thurston Geometrization Conjecture, come with our purely 4-dimensional line of argument.