Equivalent non-isotopic spheres in 4-manifolds

DOI10.1112/TOPO.12121MaRDI QIDQ5217934zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hannah R. Schwartz

Publication date 26 February 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07541

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional knots and links (57K45) Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70) Topological manifolds (57N99)

Abstract: We construct infinitely many smooth oriented 4-manifolds containing pairs of homotopic, smoothly embedded 2-spheres that are not topologically isotopic, but that are equivalent by an ambient diffeomorphism inducing the identity on homology. These examples show that Gabai's recent "Generalized" 4D Lightbulb Theorem does not generalize to arbitrary 4-manifolds. In contrast, we also show that there are smoothly embedded 2-spheres that are both equivalent and topologically isotopic, but not smoothly isotopic.

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