Infinite homotopy stable class for 4-manifolds with boundary
Geometric Topology
2023-11-08 v2
Abstract
We show that for every odd prime , there exists an infinite family of topological 4-manifolds that are all stably homeomorphic to one another, all the manifolds have isometric rank one equivariant intersection pairings and boundary L(2q, 1) # (S^1 \times S^2), but they are pairwise not homotopy equivalent via any homotopy equivalence that restricts to a homotopy equivalence of the boundary.
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@article{arxiv.2210.00927,
title = {Infinite homotopy stable class for 4-manifolds with boundary},
author = {Anthony Conway and Diarmuid Crowley and Mark Powell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.00927},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
v1: 12 pages. v2: 26 pages. The paper underwent a significant rewrite to account for a gap on page 3 of v1, related to whether the union of two spin manifolds is again spin. The main result of the paper is unaffected