%0 Journal Article %T Akbulut's corks and h-cobordisms of smooth simply connected 4-manifolds %A Rob Kirby %J Mathematics %D 1997 %I arXiv %X This is primarily an exposition, combining work of several authors (Curtis, Hsiang, Freedman, Stong, Matveyev, and Bizaca), of the proof that a smooth 5-dimensional h-cobordism between simply connected 4-manifolds is a product off of a contractible piece which itself is diffeomorphic to the 5-ball. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9712231v1