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Unstable pseudo-isotopies of spherical 3-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2023-10-19 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

In our previous works, we constructed diffeomorphisms of compact 4-manifolds XX by surgeries on theta-graphs embedded in XX. In this paper, we consider the case X=M×IX=M\times I, where MM is a spherical 3-manifold. For some of such XX, we compute lower bounds of the ranks of the abelian groups π0Diff(X,)\pi_0\mathrm{Diff}(X,\partial). We study the behavior of the elements constructed by theta-graph surgery under the suspension functor in stable pseudo-isotopy theory, and their triviality in the space of block diffeomorphisms.

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@article{arxiv.2303.13877,
  title  = {Unstable pseudo-isotopies of spherical 3-manifolds},
  author = {Yuji Ohta and Tadayuki Watanabe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.13877},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

17 pages. Added co-author. Revised acknowledgements