Distances between surfaces in 4‐manifolds

DOI10.1112/TOPO.12148MaRDI QIDQ5108907zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oliver Singh

Publication date 6 May 2020

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

surfaces in 4-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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 $d_{extst}(Sigma,Sigm{a}^{\prime })leq{d}_{extsing}(Sigma,Sigm{a}^{\prime })+1$.

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