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Diffeomorphism groups of solid tori and the rational pseudoisotopy stable range

Algebraic Topology 2026-02-19 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We compute the rational homotopy groups of the classifying space BDiff(S1×Dd1)\mathrm{BDiff}_{\partial}(S^1 \times D^{d-1}) of the topological group of diffeomorphisms of S1×Dd1S^1 \times D^{d-1} fixing the boundary for d6d \geq 6, in a range of degrees up until around dd. This extends results of Budney-Gabai, Bustamante-Randal-Williams, and Watanabe. As consequences of this computation, we determine the rational pseudoisotopy stable range for compact spin manifolds with fundamental group Z\mathbf{Z} of dimension d6d\geq 6 to be [0,d5][0,d-5], and compute in this range the rational homotopy groups of BDiff(S1×N)\mathrm{BDiff}_{\partial}(S^1 \times N) for compact simply-connected spin (d1)(d-1)-manifolds NN. Finally, by combining our results with work of Krannich-Randal-Williams and Kupers-Randal-Williams on BDiff(Dd)\mathrm{BDiff}_{\partial}(D^d), we compute the rational homotopy groups of the space Emb(Dd2,Dd)\mathrm{Emb}_{\partial}(D^{d-2}, D^d) of long knots in codimension 2 for d6d \geq 6, again in the same range.

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@article{arxiv.2602.08140,
  title  = {Diffeomorphism groups of solid tori and the rational pseudoisotopy stable range},
  author = {João Lobo Fernandes and Samuel Muñoz-Echániz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08140},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

96 pages, 1 figure. v2: fixed incompatibility between \cref package and TeX Live 2025

R2 v1 2026-07-01T10:27:03.392Z