Direct and indirect constructions of locally flat surfaces in 4-manifolds
| Autor: | Ray, Arunima |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | There are two main approaches to building locally flat embedded surfaces in 4-manifolds: direct methods which geometrically manipulate a given map of a surface, and more indirect methods using surgery theory. Both methods rely on Freedman--Quinn's disc embedding theorem. These are the lecture notes for a minicourse giving an introduction to both methods, by sketching the proofs of the following results: every primitive second homology class in a closed, simply connected 4-manifold is represented by a locally flat torus (Lee--Wilczy\'{n}ski); and every Alexander polynomial one knot in $S^3$ is topologically slice (Freedman--Quinn). Comment: 33 pages, 15 figures. Comments welcome! |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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