Rational homology cobordisms of plumbed manifolds
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Rational homology cobordisms of plumbed manifolds
zbMATH Open document ID: 1446.57010
author: Paolo Aceto
published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology
publication date: 2020-06-03T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03863
full work available at URL: 1502.03863v2
review text: The slice-ribbon conjecture (Fox 1962) states that every slice knot is ribbon. \textit{P. Lisca} proved [Geom. Topol. 11, 429--472 (2007; Zbl 1185.57006)] that the conjecture is true for 2-bridge knots, using an obstruction based on Donaldson's diagonalization theorem to determine which lens spaces bound rational homology balls (if a knot \(K\) is slice then its branched double cover is a rational homology sphere that bounds a rational homology ball; if \(K\) is a 2-bridge knot then the branched double cover is a lens space). As the author notes, the starting point of the present work is an adaption of these ideas to the study of slice links with \(n > 1\) components. Focusing on the case \(n = 2\), this leads then to the following general problem: Which rational homology \(S^1 \times S^2\)'s bound rational \(S^1 \times D^3\)'s? The author gives a simple procedure to construct rational homology cobordisms between plumbed 3-manifolds. ``We introduce a family of plumbed 3-manifolds with \(b_1 = 1\). By adapting an obstruction based on Donaldson's diagonalization theorem, we characterize all manifolds in our family that bound rational homology \(S^1 \times D^3\)'s. For all these manifolds a rational homology cobordism to \(S^1 \times S^2\) can be constructed via our procedure. Our family is large enough to include all Seifert fibered spaces over the 2-sphere with vanishing Euler invariant. In a subsequent paper we describe applications to arborescent link concordance.''
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57K30
zbMATH DE Number: 7207571
zbMATH Keywords: rational homology cobordisms
zbMATH Keywords: plumbing
reviewed by: Bruno Zimmermann
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W3098530945
arXiv ID: 1502.03863
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DOI: 10.2140/AGT.2020.20.1073
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