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A FINITE SET OF LOCAL MOVES FOR KIRBY CALCULUS

A FINITE SET OF LOCAL MOVES FOR KIRBY CALCULUS

We exhibit a finite set of local moves that connect any two surgery presentations of the same 3-manifold via framed links in S 3 . The moves are handle-slides and blow-downs/ups of a particular simple kind.