A survey of the homology cobordism group

DOI10.1090/BULL/1806zbMATH Open1529.57012arXiv2209.10735OpenAlexW4387396982MaRDI QIDQ6139813FDOQ6139813

Oğuz Şavk

Publication date: 19 December 2023

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

Abstract: In this survey, we present most recent highlights from the study of the homology cobordism group, with a particular emphasis on its long-standing and rich history in the context of smooth manifolds. Further, we list various results on its algebraic structure and discuss its crucial role in the development of low-dimensional topology. Also, we share a series of open problems about the behavior of homology $3$-spheres and the structure of $Thet{a}_m^{3}athbbZ$. Finally, we briefly discuss the knot concordance group $mathcalC$ and the rational homology cobordism group $Thet{a}_m^{3}athbbQ$, focusing on their algebraic structures, relating them to $Thet{a}_m^{3}athbbZ$, and highlighting several open problems. The appendix is a compilation of several constructions and presentations of homology $3$-spheres introduced by Brieskorn, Dehn, Gordon, Seifert, Siebenmann, and Waldhausen.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10735

zbMATH Keywords

smooth manifoldshomology cobordism groupknot concordancelow-dimensional topologyhomology \(3\)-spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Floer homology (57R58) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) Other types of cobordism (57R90) Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties) (57K31) Invariants of 4-manifolds (including Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants) (57K41)

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