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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Does there exist a Dehn filling of an irreducible 3-manifold with toroidal boundaries which is still irreducible?
Let $M$ be a compact, orientable, irreducible 3-manifold with incompressible toroidal boundary (there might be more than one boundary component). Is it always possible to choose appropriate slopes on ...
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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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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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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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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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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 $M''...
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On the proof of the surgery step in Wall's book
This question regards a part of the proof of the so called surgery step, in Wall's book "surgery on compact manifolds", Theorem 1.1.
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$M^m$ smooth manifold, $X$ CW complex, $\phi :M\...
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4-manifold obtained from a ribbon disk exterior by attaching a 2-handle is simply-connected if its boundary is a homology sphere
I am reading Lemma 2.1 of this paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.12587.pdf) and I can't see why $W$ is simply-connected. Here is the situation:
Let $K$ be a ribbon knot in $S^3$; it bounds a ribbon ...
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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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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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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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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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Surgery along knots and connected sum
Denote $S^3_{p/q}(K)$ by performing $p/q$-surgery along a knot $K$ in $S^3$.
Let $K$ and $J$ be two arbitrary oriented non-trivial knots in $S^3$. Is there a nice relation between surgery on the ...
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