Balanced presentations of the trivial group and four-dimensional geometry

Abstract: We prove that 1) There exist infinitely many non-trivial codimension one "thick" knots in

m a t h b b R^{5}

; 2) For each closed four-dimensional smooth manifold

M

and for each sufficiently small positive

e p s i l o n

the set of isometry classes of Riemannian metrics with volume equal to

1

and injectivity radius greater than

e p s i l o n

is disconnected; 3) For each closed four-dimensional

P L

-manifold

M

and any

m

there exist arbitrarily large values of

N

such that some two triangulations of

M

with

< N

simplices cannot be connected by any sequence of

< M_{m} (N)

bistellar transformations, where

M_{m} (N) = e x p (e x p (l d o t s e x p (N)))

(

m

times).

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