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Second obstruction to pseudoisotopy in dimension 3

Geometric Topology 2021-12-16 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We use lens-shaped models and the second obstruction to pseudoisotopy to construct a nontrivial diffeomorphism of M×IM\times I where MM is the connected sum of S1×S2S^1\times S^2 with a another nonsimply connected 3-manifold MM'. Then we take two copies of this diffeomorphism and paste together their tops and bottoms to obtain a diffeomorphism of M×S1M\times S^1. Properties of the second obstruction and the first Postnikov invariant imply that this diffeomorphism of the closed 4-manifold M×S1M\times S^1 is not isotopic to the identity. Similar results were obtain by Singh [10].

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@article{arxiv.2112.08293,
  title  = {Second obstruction to pseudoisotopy in dimension 3},
  author = {Kiyoshi Igusa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.08293},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages, 5 figures

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