Whitney towers and gropes in 4–manifolds

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-05-03768-2zbMATH Open1117.57021arXivmath/0310303OpenAlexW1556742842MaRDI QIDQ5473441FDOQ5473441

Authors: Rob Schneiderman 

Publication date: 21 June 2006

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Many open problems and important theorems in low-dimensional topology have been formulated as statements about certain 2--complexes called gropes. This paper describes a precise correspondence between embedded gropes in 4--manifolds and the failure of the Whitney move in terms of iterated `towers' of Whitney disks. The `flexibility' of these Whitney towers is used to demonstrate some geometric consequences for knot and link concordance connected to n-solvability, k-cobordism and grope concordance. The key observation is that the essential structure of gropes and Whitney towers can be described by embedded unitrivalent trees which can be controlled during surgeries and Whitney moves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0310303

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zbMATH Keywords

Whitney towerknot concordance4-manifoldgropeunitrivalent tree

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