English

On intersection forms of definite 4-manifolds bounded by a rational homology 3-sphere

Geometric Topology 2018-02-22 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

We show that, if a rational homology 3-sphere YY bounds a positive definite smooth 4-manifold, then there are finitely many negative definite lattices, up to the stable-equivalence, which can be realized as the intersection form of a smooth 4-manifold bounded by YY. To this end, we make use of constraints on definite forms bounded by YY induced from Donaldson's diagonalization theorem, and correction term invariants due to Fr\o yshov, and Ozsv\'ath and Szab\'o. In particular, we prove that all spherical 3-manifolds satisfy such finiteness property.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1704.04419,
  title  = {On intersection forms of definite 4-manifolds bounded by a rational homology 3-sphere},
  author = {Dong Heon Choe and Kyungbae Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.04419},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

17 pages, 5 figures; Typos fixed. We added more results including properties on spherical 3-manifolds. The version to appear in Topology and its Applications