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Cobordism and Kirby calculus

It may be a simple question but I wonder to ask: Is it possible to draw a homology cobordism between $3$-manifolds by using the techniques of Kirby calculus? At least, for instance, Brieskorn ...
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Mapping class group and surgery theory

Given a smooth manifold $M$ of dimension $n$ and a diffeomorphism $\phi: M \to M$, we can construct a smooth cobordism of dimension $(n+1)$ from $M$ to $M$ by gluing $M \times [0,1]$ with itself by $\...
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