Embedding calculus and smooth structures

DOI10.2140/GT.2024.28.353MaRDI QIDQ6118340zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ben Knudsen, Alexander Kupers

Publication date 21 March 2024

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03109

zbMATH Keywords

4-manifoldssmooth structuresembedding calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10) Loop space machines and operads in algebraic topology (55P48)

Abstract: We study the dependence of the embedding calculus Taylor tower on the smooth structures of the source and target. We prove that embedding calculus does not distinguish exotic smooth structures in dimension 4, implying a negative answer to a question of Viro. In contrast, we show that embedding calculus does distinguish certain exotic spheres in higher dimensions. As a technical tool of independent interest, we prove an isotopy extension theorem for the limit of the embedding calculus tower, which we use to investigate several further examples.

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