Stable diffeomorphism classification of some unorientable 4-manifolds
Geometric Topology
2024-11-15 v2 Algebraic Topology
Abstract
Kreck's modified surgery theory reduces the classification of closed, connected 4-manifolds, up to connect sum with some number of copies of , to a series of bordism questions. We implement this in the case of unorientable 4-manifolds M and show that for some choices of fundamental groups, the computations simplify considerably. We use this to solve some cases in which is finite of order 2 mod 4: under an assumption on cohomology, there are nine stable diffeomorphism classes for which M is pin, one stable diffeomorphism class for which M is pin, and four stable diffeomorphism classes for which M is neither. We also determine the corresponding stable homeomorphism classes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.03965,
title = {Stable diffeomorphism classification of some unorientable 4-manifolds},
author = {Arun Debray},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.03965},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
10 pages. Comments welcome! v2: fixed an error in an important lemma