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Second obstruction to pseudoisotopy I

Geometric Topology 2021-10-20 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

A pseudoisotopy of MM is a diffeomorphism of M×IM\times I which is the identity on M×0M\times 0. We give an explicit construction of pseudoisotopies of 4-manifolds which realize certain elements of the "second obstruction to pseudoisotopy". The next paper will give precise statements of our results for 5-manifolds which had been announced long ago.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2110.09659,
  title  = {Second obstruction to pseudoisotopy I},
  author = {Kiyoshi Igusa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.09659},
  year   = {2021}
}

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17 pages, 5 figures

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