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Topology of cell complexes and manifolds, classification of manifolds (e.g. smoothing, surgery), low dimensional topology (e.g. knot theory, invariants of 4-manifolds), embedding theory, combinatorial and PL topology, geometric group theory, infinite dimensional topology (e.g. Hilbert cube manifolds, theory of retracts).

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Homotopy equivalent smooth 4-manifolds which are not stably diffeomorphic?

Recall that two 4-manifolds $M$ and $N$ are stably diffeomorphic if there exist $m,n$ such that $$M \#_n (S^2 \times S^2) \cong N \#_n (S^2 \times S^2).$$ That is, they become diffeomorphic after taki …
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Do most manifolds have symmetries? or not?

Let us say that a (closed, connected) manifold has a symmetry if it admits a non-trivial action by a finite group. Note that I am not asking the action to be free. So for example rotating the 2-sphere …
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How aggressive is the fibrant replacement of $\mathrm{Bord}_n$?

The completeness condition is not really about making things invertible which weren't already. It is about where the information about invertible morphisms is stored. We can already see this with $(\i …
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Are the mapping class groups of manifolds finitely presentable?

The mapping class group of a manifold is the group $\pi_0 Diff(M)$ of components of the diffeomorphism group. There are several variations: oriented manifolds and orientation preserving diffeomorphism …
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Does $M^o=N^o$ imply that $\partial M = \partial N$?

(Marc Kegel posted his answer just before I posted this. I will leave it because perhaps this helps elaborate some of the points) No, this is not true in general. Here is an example of what can ha …
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TQFT and Mapping Class Groups

The following paper answers your question precisely, I think: arxiv:1408.0668 Specifically Theorem 1.3 (which is elaborated on in Section 4) describes precisely what additional data you must specify …
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Nilpotence of the stable Hopf map via framed cobordism

Answer Summary Let $\eta$ be the framed 1-manifold which is the Lie group framing on the circle and let $\nu$ be the Lie group framing on $S^3 = Spin(3)$. I am probably going to conflate these framed …
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Classifiying sphere eversions

Answer Summary The fundamental group of the space of immersions of $S^2$ into $\mathbb{R}^3$ is $$ \pi_1 Im(S^2, \mathbb{R}^3) \cong \mathbb{Z}/2 \times \mathbb{Z}$$ This means that there are infini …
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Reference request: gluing manifolds along pieces of boundary

This was a bit too long for a comment, so I am posting it as an answer. You are sort of asking two things: How to turn your manifolds M and S into an appropriate manifold with corners together with …
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Spin TQFT's in dimensions (1+1)

This is covered in Moore and Segal "D-branes and K-theory in 2D topological field theory". In particular on around page 16 there is a characterization analogous to "1+1 TQFTs = Commutative Frobenius a …
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Is the Action of the mapping class group transitive on embedded arcs?

Let S be a surface of genus g with some parked points (n of them). Assume $n \geq 2$ and fix two of the marked points. Consider the set of embedded arcs going between these two special points. The gro …