Minimal genera of open 4-manifolds

DOI10.2140/GT.2017.21.107zbMATH Open1369.57028arXiv1309.0466OpenAlexW1931767737MaRDI QIDQ511606FDOQ511606

Robert E. Gompf

Publication date: 22 February 2017

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study exotic smoothings of open 4-manifolds using the minimal genus function and its analog for end homology. While traditional techniques in open 4-manifold smoothing theory give no control of minimal genera, we make progress by using the adjunction inequality for Stein surfaces. Smoothings can be constructed with much more control of these genus functions than the compact setting seems to allow. As an application, we expand the range of 4-manifolds known to have exotic smoothings (up to diffeomorphism). For example, every 2-handlebody interior (possibly infinite or nonorientable) has an exotic smoothing, and "most" have infinitely, or sometimes uncountably many, distinguished by the genus function and admitting Stein structures when orientable. Manifolds with 3-homology are also accessible. We investigate topological submanifolds of smooth 4-manifolds. Every domain of holomorphy (Stein open subset) in the complex plane $C^2$ is topologically isotopic to uncountably many other diffeomorphism types of domains of holomorphy with the same genus functions, or with varying but controlled genus functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0466

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zbMATH Keywords

Stein surfaceCasson handleexotic smoothinggenus functionminimal genera

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stein manifolds (32Q28) Smoothing in differential topology (57R10)

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