SPIN structures and codimension-two homeomorphism extensions

Abstract: Let

i m a t h : M o R R^{p + 2}

be a smooth embedding from a connected, oriented, closed

p

-dimesional smooth manifold to

R R^{p + 2}

, then there is a spin structure

i m a t h^{s} h a r p (v a r s i g m a^{p + 2})

on

M

canonically induced from the embedding. If an orientation-preserving diffeomorphism

a u

of

M

extends over

i m a t h

as an orientation-preserving topological homeomorphism of

R R^{p + 2}

, then

a u

preserves the induced spin structure. Let

e s g_{c} a t (i m a t h)

be the subgroup of the

c a t

-mapping class group

m c g_{c} a t (M)

consisting of elements whose representatives extend over

R R^{p + 2}

as orientation-preserving

c a t

-homeomorphisms, where

c a t = o p o

,

p l

or

d i f f

. The invariance of

i m a t h^{s} h a r p (v a r s i g m a^{p + 2})

gives nontrivial lower bounds to

[m c g_{c} a t (M) : e s g_{c} a t (i m a t h)]

in various special cases. We apply this to embedded surfaces in

R R^{4}

and embedded

p

-dimensional tori in

R R^{p + 2}

. In particular, in these cases the index lower bounds for

e s g_{o} p o (i m a t h)

are achieved for unknotted embeddings.

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