The stable mapping class group of simply connected 4-manifolds

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2008.031zbMATH Open1162.57012arXivmath/0510599MaRDI QIDQ3524804FDOQ3524804

Authors: Jeffrey Giansiracusa 

Publication date: 15 September 2008

Published in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider mapping class groups Gamma(M) = pi_0 Diff(M fix partial M) of smooth compact simply connected oriented 4-manifolds M bounded by a collection of 3-spheres. We show that if M contains CP^2 (with either orientation) as a connected summand then Gamma(M) is independent of the number of boundary components. By repackaging classical results of Wall, Kreck and Quinn, we show that the natural homomorphism from the mapping class group to the group of automorphisms of the intersection form becomes an isomorphism after stabilization with respect to connected sum with CP^2 # �ar{CP^2}. We next consider the 3+1 dimensional cobordism 2-category of 3-spheres, 4-manifolds (as above) and enriched with isotopy classes of diffeomorphisms as 2-morphisms. We identify the homotopy type of the classifying space of this category as the Hermitian algebraic K-theory of the integers. We also comment on versions of these results for simply connected spin 4-manifolds. Finally, we observe that a related 4-manifold operad detects infinite loop spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510599

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zbMATH Keywords

boundarystabilizationmapping class groupintersection formDehn twistssimply connected 4-manifoldcobordism 2-category

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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