The Topological Interpretation of the Core Group of a Surface inS4

DOI10.4153/CMB-2002-016-0zbMATH Open1018.57010arXivmath/0403475MaRDI QIDQ4547571FDOQ4547571

Authors: Józef H. Przytycki, Witold Rosicki 

Publication date: 21 August 2002

Published in: Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a topological interpretation of the core group invariant of a surface embedded in S^4. We show that the group is isomorphic to the free product of the fundamental group of the double branch cover of S^4 with the surface as a branched set, and the infinite cyclic group. We present a generalization for unoriented surfaces, for other cyclic branched covers, and other codimension two embeddings of manifolds in spheres. The method of computing the fundamental group of n-fold cyclic branched covers is related to the one described in R.H.Crowell, The derived group of a permutation representation, Adv. in Math. 53(1), 1984, 99--124. We use these computations in recent papers: http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.GT/0302098 http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.GT/0309140

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403475

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zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupquandlehigher dimensional knotWirtinger presentationbranched cyclic covergeneralized knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

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