4-manifolds with boundary and fundamental group \mathbb{Z}

MaRDI QIDQ6400151FDO

Authors Anthony Conway, Lisa Piccirillo, Mark Powell

Publication date 25 May 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55) Knot theory (57K10) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40) Symplectic structures in 4 dimensions (57K43)

Abstract: We classify topological $4$-manifolds with boundary and fundamental group $mathbbZ$, under some assumptions on the boundary. We apply this to classify surfaces in simply-connected $4$-manifolds with $S^3$ boundary, where the fundamental group of the surface complement is $mathbbZ$. We then compare these homeomorphism classifications with the smooth setting. For manifolds, we show that every Hermitian form over $mathbbZ[t^{pm1}]$ arises as the equivariant intersection form of a pair of exotic smooth 4-manifolds with boundary and fundamental group $mathbbZ$. For surfaces we have a similar result, and in particular we show that every $2$-handlebody with $S^3$ boundary contains a pair of exotic discs.

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