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The groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds with boundary

Geometric Topology 2021-02-04 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We give constraints on smooth families of 4-manifolds with boundary using Manolescu's Seiberg-Witten Floer stable homotopy type, provided that the fiberwise restrictions of the families to the boundaries are trivial families of 3-manifolds. As an application, we show that, for a simply-connected oriented compact smooth 4-manifold XX with boundary with an assumption on the Fr{\o}yshov invariant or the Manolescu invariants α,β,γ\alpha, \beta, \gamma of X\partial X, the inclusion map Diff(X,)Homeo(X,)\mathrm{Diff}(X,\partial) \hookrightarrow \mathrm{Homeo}(X,\partial) between the groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms which fix the boundary pointwise is not a weak homotopy equivalence. This combined with a classical result in dimension 3 implies that the inclusion map Diff(X)Homeo(X)\mathrm{Diff}(X) \hookrightarrow \mathrm{Homeo}(X) is also not a weak homotopy equivalence under the same assumption on X\partial X. Our constraints generalize both of constraints on smooth families of closed 4-manifolds proven by Baraglia and a Donaldson-type theorem for smooth 4-manifolds with boundary originally due to Fr{\o}yshov.

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@article{arxiv.2010.00340,
  title  = {The groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds with boundary},
  author = {Hokuto Konno and Masaki Taniguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.00340},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

46 pages Subsection 4.1 is added. Examples are added