Distances between surfaces in 4‐manifolds

DOI10.1112/TOPO.12148zbMATH Open1462.57025arXiv1905.00763OpenAlexW3102707613MaRDI QIDQ5108907FDOQ5108907

Oliver Singh

Publication date: 6 May 2020

Published in: Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: If $Sigma$ and $Sigm{a}^{\prime }$ are homotopic embedded surfaces in a $4$-manifold then they may be related by a regular homotopy (at the expense of introducing double points) or by a sequence of stabilisations and destabilisations (at the expense of adding genus). This naturally gives rise to two integer-valued notions of distance between the embeddings: the singularity distance $d_{extsing}(Sigma,Sigm{a}^{\prime })$ and the stabilisation distance $d_{extst}(Sigma,Sigm{a}^{\prime })$. Using techniques similar to those used by Gabai in his proof of the 4-dimensional light-bulb theorem, we prove that $d_{extst}(Sigma,Sigm{a}^{\prime })leq{d}_{extsing}(Sigma,Sigm{a}^{\prime })+1$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00763

zbMATH Keywords

surfaces in 4-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40)

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• Stabilization distance bounds from link Floer homology
• On non‐orientable surfaces embedded in 4‐manifolds
• Unknotting numbers of 2‐spheres in the 4‐sphere

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