Some compact contractible manifolds containing disjoint spines

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(94)E0018-FMaRDI QIDQ1344447zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Craig R. Guilbault

Publication date 13 February 1995

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(94)E0018-F

zbMATH Keywords

compact contractible manifoldhomology sphereNewman contractible manifoldPL spinepseudospineslippery arcsticky arcsticky Cantor settopological spine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General position and transversality (57N75) Regular neighborhoods in PL-topology (57Q40)

Review text

People have long wondered whether a Mazur-type contractible 4-manifold can possess a pair of disjoint spines. The question was extended to all compact contractible PL manifolds. In the present paper the author establishes the existence of this phenomenon in a class of compact contractible manifolds. Let \(L\) be a compact, acyclic, \(k\)-dimensional polyhedron in \(S^n\) and let \(M\) be the closure of the complement of a regular neighborhood of \(L\). If \(n \geq k + 3\), then \(M\) is contractible and \(\pi_1 (\partial M) = \pi_1 (L)\); if the latter group is nontrivial, then \(M\) is said to be a Newman contractible manifold. The main theorem of the present paper states that every such \(M\) with \(n > 4k\) contains a pair of disjoint spines. The author then applies his theory to settle a conjecture in the topological embedding theory. A subset \(K\) of a metric space \(X\) is said to be slippery if it can be pushed off itself by homeomorphisms of \(X\) arbitrarily close to the identity, and \(K\) is said to be sticky otherwise. It has been believed that if \(J\) is a circle and \(H\) is any non-simply-connected homology \((n - 2) \)-sphere, then \(J\) (and any subarc of \(J)\) is sticky in \(J*H = \Sigma^2 H \approx S^n\). However, here the author proves that \(J\) is slippery in \(S^n\) if \(H\) is the boundary of a compact contractible \((n - 1)\)-manifold containing a pair of disjoint spines, and thus his main theorem provides lots of counterexamples.

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