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Given a Kirby diagram of a 4-manifold, what's its homotopy 2-type?

It's easy to derive a presentation of the fundamental group of a 4-manifold if you have a Kirby diagram: The 1-handles are generators and the 2-handles are the relations. The 3- and 4-handles, which ...
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