The Novikov conjecture and low-dimensional topology
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The Novikov conjecture and low-dimensional topology
zbMATH Open document ID: 0535.57009
DOI: 10.1007/BF02564641
author: Shmuel Weinberger
published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici
publication date: 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/139944
review text: This paper is a contribution to the question of whether in dimension 4 ''cutting and pasting'' can produce new manifolds. This means the process of cutting a manifold along a separating codimension-one submanifold N and glueing the pieces together by a homeomorphism (or diffeomorphism) of N homotopic to the identity. The case is studied in which the initial and terminal manifolds are \(M_ 1=S^ 1\times L_ 1\), resp. \(M_ 2=S^ 1\times L_ 2\), \(L_ 1\) and \(L_ 2\) being nonhomeomorphic 3-dim. lens spaces. It is shown by 3-manifold theory that, under the additional hypothesis that N doesn't contain fake 3-discs, \(M_ 2\) cannot be obtained from \(M_ 1\) by cutting and pasting. This additional hypothesis later is removed by the use of L-theory and known cases of the Novikov conjecture. The author conjectures that in dimension 4 no new manifolds can be produced by cutting and pasting.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57N13
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R67
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57N10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 55P10
zbMATH DE Number: 3850098
zbMATH Keywords: cutting and pasting 4-manifolds
zbMATH Keywords: Lens spaces
zbMATH Keywords: fake 3-discs
zbMATH Keywords: L-theory
zbMATH Keywords: Novikov conjecture
Wikidata QID: Q123325303
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3850098