The Novikov conjecture and low-dimensional topology

DOI10.1007/BF02564641MaRDI QIDQ791198zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Shmuel Weinberger

Publication date 1983

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/139944

zbMATH Keywords

cutting and pasting 4-manifoldsfake 3-discsL-theoryLens spacesNovikov conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67)

Review text

This paper is a contribution to the question of whether in dimension 4 cutting and pasting can produce new manifolds. This means the process of cutting a manifold along a separating codimension-one submanifold N and glueing the pieces together by a homeomorphism (or diffeomorphism) of N homotopic to the identity. The case is studied in which the initial and terminal manifolds are \(M_ 1=S^ 1\times L_ 1\), resp. \(M_ 2=S^ 1\times L_ 2\), \(L_ 1\) and \(L_ 2\) being nonhomeomorphic 3-dim. lens spaces. It is shown by 3-manifold theory that, under the additional hypothesis that N doesn't contain fake 3-discs, \(M_ 2\) cannot be obtained from \(M_ 1\) by cutting and pasting. This additional hypothesis later is removed by the use of L-theory and known cases of the Novikov conjecture. The author conjectures that in dimension 4 no new manifolds can be produced by cutting and pasting.

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