Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds from graspers
Geometric Topology
2025-05-05 v3
Abstract
We relate degree one grasper families of embedded circles to various constructions of diffeomorphisms found in the literature -- theta clasper classes of Watanabe, barbell diffeomorphisms of Budney and Gabai, and twin twists of Gay and Hartman. We use a ``parameterised surgery map'' that for a smooth 4-manifold takes loops of framed embeddings of in the manifold obtained by surgery on some 2-sphere in , to the mapping class group of .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2405.05822,
title = {Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds from graspers},
author = {Danica Kosanović},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05822},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
29 pages, 18 figures. v2: Minor edits. v3: Major edits, improved exposition