Spaces of knotted circles and exotic smooth structures

DOI10.4153/S0008414X2000067XMaRDI QIDQ5029486zbMATHFDO

Authors Markus Szymik, Gregory Arone

Publication date 14 February 2022

Published in Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00978

zbMATH Keywords

embeddingsknotsexotic smooth structuresfunctor calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55) Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Goodwillie calculus and functor calculus (18F50) Higher-dimensional knots and links (57K45)

Abstract: Suppose that $N_1$ and $N_2$ are closed smooth manifolds of dimension $n$ that are homeomorphic. We prove that the spaces of smooth knots $Emb(S^1,N_1)$ and $Emb(S^1,N_2)$ have the same homotopy $(2n-7)$-type. In the 4-dimensional case this means that the spaces of smooth knots in homeomorphic 4-manifolds have sets $p{i}_0$ of components that are in bijection, and the corresponding path components have the same fundamental groups $p{i}_1$. The result about $p{i}_0$ is well-known and elementary, but the result about $p{i}_1$ appears to be new. The result gives a negative partial answer to a question of Oleg Viro. Our proof uses the Goodwillie-Weiss embedding tower. We give a new model for the quadratic stage of the Goodwillie-Weiss tower, and prove that the homotopy type of the quadratic approximation of the space of knots in $N$ does not depend on the smooth structure on $N$. Our results also give a lower bound on $p{i}_{2}Emb(S^1,N)$. We use our model to show that for every choice of basepoint, each of the homotopy groups $p{i}_1$ and $p{i}_2$ of $Emb(S^1,S^{1}imes{S}^3)$ contains an infinitely generated free abelian group.

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