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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 S2×S2S^2\times S^2, 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 π1(M)\pi_1(M) 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.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-23T22:55:27.397Z