The rational classification of links of codimension > 2

DOI10.1515/FORM.2011.158MaRDI QIDQ3189491zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Steve Ferry, Mikhail Skopenkov, Diarmuid Crowley

Publication date 11 September 2014

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1455

zbMATH Keywords

embeddinghomotopy groupisotopyLie algebralinksmooth manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Identities, free Lie (super)algebras (17B01) Rational homotopy theory (55P62) Isotopy in differential topology (57R52)

Abstract: Fix an integer m and a multi-index p = (p_1, ..., p_r) of integers p_i < m-2. The set of links of codimension > 2, with multi-index p, E(p, m), is the set of smooth isotopy classes of smooth embeddings of the disjoint union of the p_i-spheres into the m-sphere. Haefliger showed that E(p, m) is a finitely generated abelian group with respect to embedded connected summation and computed its rank in the case of knots, i.e. r=1. For r > 1 and for restrictions on p the rank of this group can be computed using results of Haefliger or Nezhinsky. Our main result determines the rank of the group E(p, m) in general. In particular we determine precisely when E(p,m) is finite. We also accomplish these tasks for framed links. Our proofs are based on the Haefliger exact sequence for groups of links and the theory of Lie algebras.

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