Rational homology cobordisms of plumbed manifolds

DOI10.2140/AGT.2020.20.1073MaRDI QIDQ2187724zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paolo Aceto

Publication date 3 June 2020

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03863, http://real.mtak.hu/114336/1/1502.03863v2

zbMATH Keywords

plumbingrational homology cobordisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30)

Abstract: We investigate rational homology cobordisms of 3-manifolds with non-zero first Betti number. This is motivated by the natural generalization of the slice-ribbon conjecture to multicomponent links. In particular we consider the problem of which rational homology $S^{1}imes{S}^2$'s bound rational homology $S^{1}imes{D}^3$'s. We give a simple procedure to construct rational homology cobordisms between plumbed 3-manifold. We introduce a family F of plumbed 3-manifolds with first Betti number equal to 1. By adapting an obstruction based on Donaldson's diagonalization theorem we characterize all manifolds in F that bound rational homology $S^{1}imes{D}^3$'s. For all these manifolds a rational homology cobordism to $S^{1}imes{S}^2$ can be constructed via our procedure. The family F is large enough to include all Seifert fibered spaces over the 2-sphere with vanishing Euler invariant. In a subsequent paper we describe applications to arborescent link concordance.

Review text

The slice-ribbon conjecture (Fox 1962) states that every slice knot is ribbon. \textit{P. Lisca} proved [Geom. Topol. 11, 429--472 (2007; Zbl 1185.57006)] that the conjecture is true for 2-bridge knots, using an obstruction based on Donaldson's diagonalization theorem to determine which lens spaces bound rational homology balls (if a knot \(K\) is slice then its branched double cover is a rational homology sphere that bounds a rational homology ball; if \(K\) is a 2-bridge knot then the branched double cover is a lens space). As the author notes, the starting point of the present work is an adaption of these ideas to the study of slice links with \(n > 1\) components. Focusing on the case \(n = 2\), this leads then to the following general problem: Which rational homology \(S^1 \times S^2\)'s bound rational \(S^1 \times D^3\)'s? The author gives a simple procedure to construct rational homology cobordisms between plumbed 3-manifolds. ``We introduce a family of plumbed 3-manifolds with \(b_1 = 1\). By adapting an obstruction based on Donaldson's diagonalization theorem, we characterize all manifolds in our family that bound rational homology \(S^1 \times D^3\)'s. For all these manifolds a rational homology cobordism to \(S^1 \times S^2\) can be constructed via our procedure. Our family is large enough to include all Seifert fibered spaces over the 2-sphere with vanishing Euler invariant. In a subsequent paper we describe applications to arborescent link concordance.

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