Applications of controlled surgery in dimension 4: examples

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/1179759541MaRDI QIDQ861759zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Friedrich Hegenbarth, Dušan Repovš

Publication date 30 January 2007

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608652, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jmsj/1179759541

zbMATH Keywords

controlled surgerygood fundamental groupsurgery theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67)

Abstract: The validity of Freedman's disk theorem is known to depend only on the fundamental group. It was conjectured that it fails for nonabelian free fundamental groups. If this were true then surgery theory would work in dimension four. Recently, Krushkal and Lee proved a surprising result that surgery theory works for a large special class of 4-manifolds with free nonabelian fundamental groups. The goal of this paper is to show that this also holds for other fundamental groups which are not known to be good, and that it is best understood using controlled surgery theory of Pedersen--Quinn--Ranicki. We consider some examples of 4-manifolds which have the fundamental group either of a closed aspherical surface or of a 3-dimensional knot space. A more general theorem is stated in the appendix.

Review text

Let \(M\) be the complement of a tubular neighborhood of a torus knot in \(S^3\), let \(B\) be the spine of \(M\), which is a compact \(2\)-dimensional polyhedron onto which \(M\) collapses, and consider the closed \(4\)-dimensional manifold \(X=\partial( M\times D^2)\). A main construction of this paper is a direct geometric verification that the natural map \(p: X\to B\) is \(UV^1\). The authors show how this result, together with \textit{E. K. Pedersen, F. Quinn}, and \textit{A. Ranicki} [Controlled surgery with trivial local fundamental groups. High-dimensional manifold topology. Proceedings of the school, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, May 21--June 8, 2001. River Edge, NJ: World Scientific. 421--426 (2003; Zbl 1050.57025)], implies that surgery theory works for \(X\). They also verify that if \(Y\) is a \(4\)-dimensional Poincaré complex with \(\pi_1Y=\pi_1F\) for some closed oriented aspherical surface \(F\) and the intersection form of \(Y\) is extended from \(\mathbb{Z}\), then \(Y\) is homotopy equivalent to a closed manifold \(M\) for which there is a \(UV^1\) map \(M\to F\). They conclude that surgery theory works for \(Y\).

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