Degree-one maps, surgery and four-manifolds

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDM019zbMATH Open1130.57027arXiv0809.3102OpenAlexW2963254703MaRDI QIDQ5297583FDOQ5297583

Authors: Siddhartha Gadgil 

Publication date: 12 July 2007

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a description of degree-one maps between closed, oriented 3-manifolds in terms of surgery. Namely, we show that there is a degree-one map from a closed, oriented 3-manifold $M$ to a closed, oriented 3-manifold $N$ if and only if $M$ can be obtained from $N$ by surgery about a link in $N$ each of whose components is an unknot. We use this to interpret the existence of degree-one maps between closed 3-manifolds in terms of smooth 4-manifolds. More precisely, we show that there is a degree-one map from $M$ to $N$ if and only if there is a smooth embedding of $M$ in $$, for some $mgeq0$, $ngeq0$ which separates the boundary components of $W$. This is motivated by the relation to topological field theories, in particular the invariants of Ozsvath and Szabo.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3102

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zbMATH Keywords

Dehn surgerydegree one map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R35)

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