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Family Bauer--Furuta invariant, Exotic Surfaces and Smale conjecture

Geometric Topology 2021-11-16 v2 Algebraic Topology Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We establish the existence of a pair of exotic surfaces in a punctured K3K3 which remains exotic after one external stabilization and have diffeomorphic complements. A key ingredient in the proof is a vanishing theorem of the family Bauer--Furuta invariant for diffeomorphisms on a large family of spin 4-manifolds, which is proved using the tom Dieck splitting theorem in equivariant stable homotopy theory. In particular, we prove that the S1S^{1}-equivariant family Bauer--Furuta invariant of any orientation-preserving diffeomorphism on S4S^{4} is trivial and that the Pin(2)\mathrm{Pin}(2)-equivariant family Bauer--Furuta invariant for a diffeomorphism on S2×S2S^{2}\times S^{2} is trivial if the diffeomorphism acts trivially on the homology. Therefore, these invariants do not detect exotic self-diffeomorphisms on S4S^{4} or S2×S2S^{2}\times S^{2}. Furthermore, our theorem also applies to certain exotic loops of diffeomorphisms on S4S^{4} (as recently discovered by Watanabe) and show that these loops have trivial family Bauer--Furuta invariants. En route, we observe a curious element in the Pin(2)\mathrm{Pin}(2)-equivariant stable homotopy group of spheres which could potentially be used to detect an exotic diffeomorphism on S4S^{4}.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2110.09686,
  title  = {Family Bauer--Furuta invariant, Exotic Surfaces and Smale conjecture},
  author = {Jianfeng Lin and Anubhav Mukherjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.09686},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

28 pages, 1 figures. Comments are welcomed. Version 2: Added a result on exotic loops (Theorem 1.7 and Section 2.2) and a result on the upper bound on the number of stabilizations (Proposition 1.4 and Section 3.2). Added some references