Knotted surfaces in 4‐manifolds and stabilizations
Knotted surfaces in 4‐manifolds and stabilizations
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4 歧管中的打结表面和稳定装置
DOI:
10.1112/jtopol/jtv039
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
Nathan Sunukjian
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作者:
R. Baykur;Nathan Sunukjian
In this paper, we study stable equivalence of exotically knotted surfaces in 4‐manifolds, surfaces that are topologically isotopic but not smoothly isotopic. We prove that any pair of embedded surfaces in the same homology class become smoothly isotopic after stabilizing them by handle additions in the ambient 4‐manifold, which can, moreover, be assumed to be attached in a standard way (locally and unknottedly) in many favorable situations. In particular, any exotically knotted pair of surfaces with cyclic fundamental group complements become smoothly isotopic after a same number of standard stabilizations, analogous to C.T.C. Wall's celebrated result on the stable equivalence of simply connected 4‐manifolds. We, moreover, show that all constructions of exotic knottings of surfaces we are aware of, which display a good variety of techniques and ideas, produce surfaces that become smoothly isotopic after a single stabilization.