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Complements of connected hypersurfaces in S4

Complements of connected hypersurfaces in S4

We consider the possible Euler characteristics and fundamental groups of the complementary components $X$ and $Y$ of an embedding of a connected closed 3-manifold $M$ in $S^4$. We use a 2-knot satellite construction to change the fundamental groups, and Massey products to limit the values of $\chi(X)$ and $\chi(Y)$ when …