 Handle slide (source code)

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= Handle slide

= Handleslide
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A handle slide replaces the framed <attaching sphere> of one handle by a <band sum> with a parallel copy of another handle of the same index. It changes the attaching data while preserving the diffeomorphism type of the resulting <manifold>. On the handle incidence matrix it performs an elementary row operation, or a column operation when applied to the dual decomposition.

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