Engel groups and universal surgery models

DOI10.1112/TOPO.12155MaRDI QIDQ5135502zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Freedman, Vyacheslav Krushkal

Publication date 23 November 2020

Published in Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07800

zbMATH Keywords

Engel groupsfour-dimensional topological surgery conjectureuniversal surgery models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Engel conditions (20F45) Knot theory (57K10) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40)

Abstract: We introduce a collection of 1/2-$p{i}_1$-null 4-dimensional surgery problems. This is an intermediate notion between the classically studied universal surgery models and the $p{i}_1$-null kernels which are known to admit a solution in the topological category. Using geometric applications of the group-theoretic 2-Engel relation, we show that the 1/2-$p{i}_1$-null surgery problems are universal, in the sense that solving them is equivalent to establishing 4-dimensional topological surgery for all fundamental groups. As another application of these methods, we formulate a weaker version of the $p{i}_1$-null disk lemma and show that it is sufficient for proofs of topological surgery and s-cobordism theorems for good groups.

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