Isotopies of surfaces in 4-manifolds via banded unlink diagrams

DOI10.2140/GT.2020.24.1519zbMATH Open1452.57017arXiv1804.09169OpenAlexW3100882354MaRDI QIDQ2004532FDOQ2004532

Maggie Miller, Mark C. Hughes, Seung Won Kim

Publication date: 7 October 2020

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we study surfaces embedded in $4$-manifolds. We give a complete set of moves relating banded unlink diagrams of isotopic surfaces in an arbitrary $4$-manifold. This extends work of Swenton and Kearton-Kurlin in $S^4$. As an application, we show that bridge trisections of isotopic surfaces in a trisected $4$-manifold are related by a sequence of perturbations and deperturbations, affirmatively proving a conjecture of Meier and Zupan. We also exhibit several isotopies of unit surfaces in $mathbbC{P}^2$ (i.e. spheres in the generating homology class), proving that many explicit unit surfaces are isotopic to the standard $mathbbC{P}^1$. This strengthens some previously known results about the Gluck twist in $S^4$, related to Kirby problem 4.23.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09169

zbMATH Keywords

surface4-manifoldknotted surfaceband movesKirby diagrambanded unlink diagrambridge trisectionunit surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40) Higher-dimensional knots and links (57K45)

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