Homotopy classes of 2 disjoint 2p-spheres in R^3p+1

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(95)00113-1MaRDI QIDQ1917062zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nathan Habegger, Uwe Kaiser

Publication date 13 July 1997

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(95)00113-1

zbMATH Keywords

generalized linking numberhomotopy typelink homotopieslink maps

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Review text

Link maps \(f:S^{2p}\coprod S^{2p}\to S^{3p+1}\) (i.e. the two spheres have disjoint images) are classified up to link homotopies (i.e. deformations through such link maps). The authors show that for \(p\neq 3,7\), \(p>1\) this classification is performed entirely by the generalized linking number \(\alpha(f)\neq \pi^S_p\) (and that all elements in this stable homotopy group actually occur as values of \(\alpha\)). Since the dimension constellation of this result lies outside of the ``metastable range, the authors have to develop new techniques which center around the homotopy type of the complement of a generic image of one sphere in another. Along the way they prove that here every link map is homotopic to an embedded link.

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