The Number of Smooth 4-Manifolds with a Fixed Complexity

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNM054MaRDI QIDQ5428205zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Auckly

Publication date 28 November 2007

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701269

zbMATH Keywords

growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

Abstract: One can define the complexity of a smooth 4-manifold as the minimal sum of the number of disks, strands and crossings in a Kirby diagram. Martelli proved that the number of homeomorphism classes of complexity less than n grows as $n^2$. In this paper we prove that the number of diffeomorphism classes grows at least as fast as $n^{csqrt[3]n}$. Along the way we construct complete kirby diagrams for a large family of knot surgery manifolds.

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