A stability range for topological 4-manifolds
Geometric Topology
2026-02-06 v3 Algebraic Topology
Abstract
We introduce a new stable range invariant for the classification of closed, oriented topological -manifolds (up to -cobordism), after stabilization by connected sum with a uniformly bounded number of copies of .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2209.01189,
title = {A stability range for topological 4-manifolds},
author = {Ian Hambleton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01189},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
26 pages (v3). Revisions following referees' reports; final version, accepted for publication in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society