Quasiregular cobordism theorem

arXiv1904.09095MaRDI QIDQ6503440FDOQ6503440

Abstract: In this article we prove that, for an oriented PL

n

-manifold

M

with

m

boundary components and

d_{0} i n m a t h b b N

, there exist mutually disjoint closed Euclidean balls and a

m a t h s f K

-quasiregular mapping

M o m a t h b b S^{n} s e t m i n u s m a t h r m i n t (B_{1} c u p c d o t s c u p B_{m})

of degree at least

d_{0}

. The result is quantitative in the sense that the distortion

m a t h s f K

of the mapping does not depend on the degree. As applications of this construction, we obtain Rickman's large local index theorem for quasiregular maps to all dimensions

n g e 4

. We also construct, in dimension

n = 4

, a version of a wildly branching quasiregular map of Heinonen and Rickman, and a uniformly quasiregular map of arbitrarily large degree whose Julia set is a wild Cantor set. The existence of a wildly branching quasiregular map yields an example of a metric

4

-sphere

(m a t h b b S^{4}, d)

, which is not bilipschitz equivalent to the Euclidean

4

-sphere

m a t h b b S^{4}

but which admits a BLD-map to

m a t h b b S^{4}

. For the proof of the main theorem, we develop a dimension-free deformation method for cubical Alexander maps. For cubical and shellable Alexander maps this completes the

2

-dimensional deformation theory originated by S.~Rickman in 1985.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasiconformal mappings in (mathbb{R}^n), other generalizations (30C65) Quasiconformal mappings in metric spaces (30L10) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

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