Diffeomorphism groups of solid tori and the rational pseudoisotopy stable range
Abstract
We compute the rational homotopy groups of the classifying space of the topological group of diffeomorphisms of fixing the boundary for , in a range of degrees up until around . 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 of dimension to be , and compute in this range the rational homotopy groups of for compact simply-connected spin -manifolds . Finally, by combining our results with work of Krannich-Randal-Williams and Kupers-Randal-Williams on , we compute the rational homotopy groups of the space of long knots in codimension 2 for , again in the same range.
Cite
@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