Questions tagged [surgery-theory]
In geometric topology, surgery theory is used to produce one finite-dimensional manifold from another in a 'controlled' way. Originally developed for differentiable (smooth) manifolds, surgery techniques also apply to piecewise linear and topological manifolds. Surgery refers to cutting out parts of the manifold and replacing it with a part of another manifold, matching up along the cut or boundary. This is related to handlebody decompositions.
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Dehn surgery on $RP^2 \times S^1$
A standard example of Dehn surgery is obtaining $S^3$ from $S^2 \times S^1$. Consider a unknot $L$ wrapping the non-trivial cycle $S^1$ in $S^2 \times S^1$. We drill out a tubular neighborhood $T_{L} $...
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On the proof of the surgery step in Wall's book
This question regards a part of the proof of the so called surgery step, in Wall's book "surgery on compact manifolds", Theorem 1.1.
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$M^m$ smooth manifold, $X$ CW complex, $\phi :M\...
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On the degeneration of the elliptic surface $E(n)$
The following matter should be widely known (if true). I am sorry for my ignorance!
For the natural $n$, let $E(n)$ be the corresponding elliptic surface.
In the analytic world, there exists a well-...
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Gluing a manifold along its boundary, via chain complexes
Given closed oriented $n$-manifolds $M, M', M''$ and bordisms $W, W'$ with $\partial W = M \sqcup - M'$ and $\partial W' = M' \sqcup - M''$, we can collar-glue them to obtain a bordism from $M$ to $M''...
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Possible Euler characteristics of manifolds with tangential structures
Let $p:B\to BO$ be a fibration. We say that a manifold has a $B$-structure if its stable tangent bundle lifts to $B$. I am interested in the question of whether there exists, for a given even ...
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Finding inverses of certain elements in the set of normal invariants of a smooth manifold
Let, $V$ denote the Stiefel manifold of 2-frames $V_{10,2}$ . Consider the the map $S_\text{diff} (V) \xrightarrow{\eta} N_\text{diff} (V) $ in the surgery exact sequence of a smooth manifold. . ...
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Survey or good reference of taut foliations
I am interested in the topology of foliations.
In particular, I want to understand taut foliations, or projectively Anosov flows, and Anosov flows.
I guess that
A. Candel and L. Conlon, Foliations I (...
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Kirby's theorem for 4-manifolds
In dimension 3, we have the celebrated Kirby theorem: Let $L_1, L_2$ be two links in the 3-sphere $S^3$; then they surgeries along them produce homeomorphic 3-manifolds if and only if they are related ...
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Being a product - from homology to topology
The famous Kunneth formula expresses the homology of a product manifold as the tensor product of the two algebras.
Now suppose we know that a manifold $X$ has a decomposition $H_*(X) \simeq A \otimes ...
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Borromean Lines of three $\mathbb{R}^1$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and analogous Milnor link invariants
It is know that Borromean rings can be detected by Milnor invariant
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\bar{\mu}(\gamma_1,\gamma_2,\gamma_3)=
\# (\Sigma_1 \cap \Sigma_2 \cap \Sigma_3)-\frac{1}{2}\sum_{I,J,K}\epsilon_{IJK}
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On definition of surgery [closed]
I am a beginner in surgery theory. I have started learning with ALGEBRAIC AND GEOMETRIC SURGERY by Andrew Ranicki.
On page 4 of the book he defines surgery :
Denition 1.2 A surgery on an $m$-...
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Surgery of $S^3$
I have been troubled by this seemingly simple question recently.
How do we easily visualize the statement:
Surgery of $S^3$ over a trivial unknot gives $S^1 \times S^2$?
All I can think of for ...
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Framings in the definition of Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT
I posted the following question at Mathe Stack Exchange.link text But it has not yet answered. I am sorry if you check both sites but I also want people here to look at this problem.
I am studying ...
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A question on the proof of Theorem 1 in Milnor's "Killing Homotopy Groups"
Theorem 1 of Milnor's paper "A procedure for killing homotopy groups of differentiable manifolds" states that two manifolds are in the same cobordism class if and only if they can be ...
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Wall self-intersection invariant for odd-dimensional manifolds?
I am trying to convince myself that a naïve definition of the Wall self intersection number should not work for odd-dimensional manifolds. Namely, let $X^{2n-1}$ be a smooth oriented closed manifold ...
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Sullivan's $H$-space equivalence between $G/PL[1/2]$ and $BO[1/2]$
There is a theorem by Sullivan of the following form:
Theorem: There is an equivalence of $H$-spaces
$$ G/PL[\tfrac{1}{2}] \simeq BO_{\otimes}[ \tfrac{1}{2} ]\ . $$
It can be found for example ...
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Kind of "associativity" of certain connected sum involving both manifolds with and without boundary
Consider two compact, oriented and connected manifolds $\mathcal{M},\mathcal{N}$ with possibly non-empty connected boundaries $\partial\mathcal{M}$ and $\partial\mathcal{N}$. Now, in some project, I ...
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Effect of a Lutz twist on Euler number
I already asked this question on the Math Stack Exchange but did not get an answer.
I am currently working through Geiges proof of the Martinet-Lutz theorem, which can be
found here, and am trying to ...
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Integral homology $S^1\times S^2$'s smoothly bounding integral homology $S^1\times B^3$'s
Suppose we are given a compact orientable 3-manifold $M$ which is an integral homology $S^1\times S^2$. Then is there a way to determine whether $M$ bounds a smooth compact orientable 4-manifold which ...
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A user guide to the theory on Corks
I am trying to digest the meanings of the corks from the both:
algebraic topology
and
geometry topology
perspectives.
Studying corks is important for understanding the exotic phenomenon of 4-...
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Quartic link in a 5-sphere
In this post I would like to propose a quartic link in a 5-sphere.
Let us start with the following gluing into a 5-sphere:
$$S^5=(D^2_{} \times T^3_{}) \cup_{T^4} ({S^5 \smallsetminus D^2 \times T^3})...
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A link of four 2-tori $T^2$ in $S^2 \times S^2$
Step 1: We glue two sets of complement space of $D^2\times T^2$ out of the 4-sphere $S^4$, through their $T^3$ boundary with their three $S^1$ boundaries of $T^3$ cyclic permuted to obtain a new 4-...
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A link of four 2-tori $T^2$ in $S^3 \times S^1 \# S^2 \times S^2 \# S^2 \times S^2$
Step 1: We glue two sets of complement space of $D^2\times T^2$ out of the 4-sphere $S^4$, through their $T^3$ boundary to obtain a new 4-manifold:
$$(S^4 \smallsetminus D^2\times T^2) \cup (S^4 \...
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Surgery to unlink $S^p$ and $S^q$ in $S^d$
We know that $S^p$ and $S^q$ can be linked in $S^d$ if $p+q<d$. Let us consider the simplest case where both $S^p$ and $S^q$ are un-knotted spheres.
I am looking for a surgery to unlink $S^p$ and $...
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Two links with the same signatures but unknown if they are related by Kirby moves
I am wondering if there are links $L_1, L_2$ in the sphere $S^3$ such that:
the signatures of $L_1, L_2$ are known.
we do not know if they are related by Kirby moves.
If so, could you specify the ...
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Does the coefficient of the meridian determine the coefficient of the longitude?(on Dehn surgery)
I'm studying Dehn surgery, and it says that the coefficient $(p,q)$ which says how the meridian curve on solid torus is attached will determine the entire resulting manifold. I'm wondering whether the ...
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A special ribbon graph presents a cylinder.
I am reading "Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds" by Turaev. I have a dificulty to understand the proof of Lemma 2.6 on page 172.
The lemma says that a special ribbon graph drawn on page 167 ...
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What is the most symmetric configuration of four 2-surfaces linked in $S^4$?
What are some of the most symmetric configurations of four 2-surfaces linked in the 4-dimensional sphere $S^4$?
To make a lower-dimensional analogy, recall that in 3-dimensional sphere $S^3$, we can ...
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Tangential normal invariant isomorphism
Recently, I was reading the paper "Finite Group Actions on Kervaire Manifold" by Crowley, Hambolton. But I am having problem understanding a definition. Here it is,
In page 15-16 they are ...
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About connected cobordism and surgery
I need to find various ways of performing two surgeries on a collection of circles so that the resulting 2-dimensional cobordism (the trace of the surgeries) is connected.
How can I find these ? up ...
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Attaching a 2-handle to a once-twisted unlink in the boundary of the 4-ball
Consider the 3-sphere $S_3$ with an unlink loop $L$ whose tubular neighborhood is identified with the solid torus $B_2\times S_1$ with one twist, i.e., such that the image of $x\times S_1$ (where $x$ ...
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Expository material on the Gromov-Lawson surgery theorem
I am looking for an expository text on the paper "The classification of simply connected
manifolds of positive scalar curvature" by Gromov and Lawson, in particular on the proof of Theorem A....
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Surgery for algebraic varieties
I have a number of vague questions that I wasn't sure whether they are suitable to ask or not, but I decided to ask!
According to this result, any two birational varieties can be constructed by a ...
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Realizing an amalgamated product of groups by splitting a closed manifold along a codimension 1 submanifold
In the paper "A splitting theorem for manifolds" by S.E. Cappell,
https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/capsplit.pdf
the following "inverse" of the Seifert-van Kampen theorem for closed ...
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Triple link in a 5-sphere -- Proposal
In this post I would like to propose a triple link in a 5-sphere.
Let us start with the following gluing into a 5-sphere:
$$S^5=(D^2_{} \times T^3_{}) \cup_{T^4} ({S^5 \smallsetminus D^2 \times T^3})$...
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Surgery and Curvature on Foliation
Let $X$ be an oriented closed smooth $4$-manifold. Suppose that $TM$ admits a foliation $\mathcal F$ of dimension two, and admits a positvescalar curvature.
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Compare two topologies: Three 2-tori inside $S^3 \times S^1 \# S^2 \times S^2$ glued from two different diffeomorphisms
We like to ask for the comparison of two topologies of three 2-tori inside the same 4-manifolds glued from two different diffeomorphisms (see the end).
Given an embedded torus $T$ with trivial normal ...
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Why is the oriented $G$-homotopy type of a $G$-complex uniquely determined by the periodicity generator?
Say we have a periodicity generator $e \in H^k(BG)$. I can show that we then have a $(k-1)$-dimensional $G$-complex $X$ with free $G$-action. It's also not that difficult to see that it has trivial $G$...
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Integer surgery on $S^3$
I know that any compact orientable 3-manifold can be obtained from the three sphere $S^3$ by an integer surgery. I am not sure why the surgery operation is completely determined by Where we map ...
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Connected representant of a framed cobordism class (reference needed)
Let $N^n\subseteq M^m$ be a submanifold with a framing of the normal bundle, $2n<m$. Then $N^n$ is framed cobordant (in $M^m$) to something connected.
I believe it could be proved by directly ...
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Higher dimensional Seifert surfaces and link numbers of higher knots
In 3-manifold topology, the notion of Seifert surface is well known. It is then used to define link numbers of knots.
Question: Consider embedding $N^n \rightarrow M^{2n+1}$ of n-dimensional manifold $...
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Mapping class group and surgery theory
Given a smooth manifold $M$ of dimension $n$ and a diffeomorphism $\phi: M \to M$, we can construct a smooth cobordism of dimension $(n+1)$ from $M$ to $M$ by gluing $M \times [0,1]$ with itself by $\...
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Concordance, surgery and homology cobordism
In this post, we discuss the relation between the concordance of knots in $S^3$ and the integral homology cobordism.
Following its notation, assume that knots $K_0$ and $K_1$ in $S^3$ are concordant. ...
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Confused about A. Kosinski's description about surgery in his book "differential manifolds"
Please excuse me, if MO is not the proper place for this question. I aksed the same question on M.SE
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3511134/confused-about-a-kosinskis-description-of-surgery-...
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Does a homotopy sphere that bounds a highly connected manifold also bound a parallelizable manifold?
Suppose that the homotopy sphere $\Sigma^{n}$ can be realized as the boundary of a smooth $(n+1)$-dimensional cobordism that is $(n-1)/2$-connected for $n$ odd (respectively, $(n-2)/2$-connected for $...
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The relations between some 3-components links and trefoil knots [closed]
It is intuitive to see that the 3-components links (under Alexander–Briggs notations) $6^3_1, 6^3_2, 6^3_3$ are closely related to each other; in a sense by doing a cut-gluing or sew-gluing surgery, ...
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Bipartedly slice links and their surgeries
A link L in $S^3$ is said to be strongly slice if $L=∂D$,where $D$ is a disjoint union of smoothly and properly embedded disks in $B^4$.
A link $L$ in $S^3$ is called bipartedly slice if $L = L_1 \cup ...
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Finding a ribbon graph for a mapping class group action
Turaev defines TQFT $(T, \tau)$ in his book "Quantum invariants of knots and 3-manifolds". He uses it to define an action of a mapping class group of a d-surface $\Sigma$.
This action $\epsilon$ is ...
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