A characterization of groups of closed orientable surfaces in 4-space
A characterization of groups of closed orientable surfaces in 4-space
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4 空间中封闭可定向曲面组的表征
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10.1016/0040-9383(94)90038-8
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1994
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S. Kamada
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IN A lecture given at Osaka City University in September 1990, 0. Ya. Viro introduced the notion of 2-dimensional braid. A compact oriented surface F smoothly and properly embedded in 0: x 0: is called a 2-dimensional m-braid if the map F--P 0: induced from the second factor projection 0: x 0:+ Dj is an m-fold branched covering of 0: and the restriction of F to 0: x t3Dj is the product of fixed m points on Df with aDi; which is also considered a braided surface with identically trivial boundary in the sense of L. Rudolph [7, 8]. F is naturally extended to a closed oriented surface F in 0: x S2= Df x (0: u D2) and, when we identify 0: x S2 with a tubular neighborhood of a standard 2-sphere S2 in R4, F is called a closed 2-dimensional m-braid in R4. He mentioned that every closed oriented surface smoothly embedded in R4 can be described as a closed 2-dimensional braid in R4. The idea of his proof seems to be applying Alexander’s argument [l], which gives a method of winding oriented links in R3 around the core z-axis, directly to closed oriented surfaces in R4 with a standard S2 as the core, but the details are unpublished. Our Theorem 1 gives an alternative proof of his result. We prove it by using the motion picture method (cf.[3, 61) and applying Alexander’s argument only to links in R3, therefore it is easy to visualize. In fact by our method one can easily deform a given surface in R4 described by the motion picture method into a closed 2-dimensional braid. Although Theorem 1 is conversely obtained by assuming Viro’s result ($3), we prove it here by our method from the above reason.As an application of Theorem 1, we give a necessary and sufficient condition (Theorem 2) that for any given integers c 2 1 and g 2 0, a group G is the group of a closed orientable c-component genus g surface embedded in R4. This condition is given by a certain Wirtinger presentation(cf.[lo]) related to the 2-dimensional braid. It is known that a group is the group of a closed orientable surface in R4 if and only if it has a finite Wirtinger presentation (cf.[9]). An important point of Theorem 2 is that the genus of the surface can be specified. F. Gonzalez-Acufia independently has a similar result on groups of surfaces in R4 by deforming surfaces in R4 to be like braids [4]. Our surfaces in R4 involved in Theorem 1 is a certain kind of refinement of his braidlike surface. Definitions and statements of Theorems are in $1. We prove Theorem 1 in 92 as stated above, with help of the normalization theorem [6] and Markov’s theorem. In 93 a relationship between Theorem 1 and Viro’s closed a-dimensional braids is observed. Finally Theorem 2 is proved in 94.