Applications of controlled surgery in dimension 4: examples (Q861759)

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 \(Y\).