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48 results for Cappell-Shaneson construction

The paper defines and classifies Cappell-Shaneson polynomials.

problem Characterizing Cappell-Shaneson polynomials.
method Algebraic conditions on polynomials, reduction modulo primes, and construction of infinite series.
result Complete lists of Cappell-Shaneson polynomials of degrees 4 and 5, and several infinite series of degree 6.

New homotopy 4-spheres and real projective 4-spaces created.

problem Creating new homotopy 4-spheres and real projective 4-spaces.
method Extending Cappell-Shaneson's construction to produce new sets of smooth 4-manifolds.
result Produces new collections of homotopy 4-spheres and real projective 4-spaces.

Gompf proposed a conjecture on Cappell-Shaneson matrices whose affirmative answer implies that all Cappell-Shaneson homotopy 4-spheres are diffeomorphic to the standard 4-sphere. We study Gompf conjecture on Cappell-Shaneson matrices using various algebraic number theoretic techniques. We find a hidden symmetry between…

2017-07-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Akbulut has recently shown that an infinite family of Cappell-Shaneson homotopy 4-spheres is diffeomorphic to the standard 4-sphere. In the present paper, a strictly larger family is shown to be standard by a simpler method. This new approach uses no Kirby calculus except through the relatively simple 1979 paper of Akb…

2009-08-13abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we investigate existence of inequivalent smooth structures on closed smooth non-orientable 4-manifolds building upon results of Akbulut, Cappell-Shaneson, Fintushel-Stern, Gompf, and Stolz. We add to the number of known constructions and provide new examples of exotic manifolds that are obtained as an ap…

2013-06-11abs ↗pdf ↗

In 1987 S Cappell and J Shaneson constructed an s-cobordism H from the quaternionic 3-manifold Q to itself, and asked whether H or any of its covers are trivial product cobordism? In this paper we study H, and in particular show that its 8-fold cover is the product cobordism from S^3 to itself. We reduce the triviality…

2002-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that the Cappell-Shaneson version of Pick's theorem for simple lattice polytopes is a consequence of a general relation between characteristic numbers of virtual submanifolds dual to the characteristic classes of a stably almost complex manifold. This relation is analogous to the miraculous cancellation formula…

2007-10-03abs ↗pdf ↗

The stable Andrews-Curtis conjecture in combinatorial group theory is the statement that every balanced presentation of the trivial group can be simplified to the trivial form by elementary moves corresponding to "handle-slides" together with "stabilization" moves. Schoenflies conjecture is the statement that the compl…

2014-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Within its traditional range of perversity parameters, intersection cohomology is a topological invariant of pseudomanifolds. This is no longer true once one allows superperversities, in which case intersection cohomology may depend on the choice of the stratification by which it is defined. Topological invariance also…

2004-07-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Article constructs coassociative submanifolds in Joyce's G2G_2-manifolds.

problem Constructing coassociative submanifolds in Joyce's G2G_2-manifolds.
method Using Joyce's generalised Kummer construction, focusing on the critical region where the metric degenerates.
result The volume of the coassociatives shrinks to zero as the orbifold-limit is approached.

The twist construction is a geometric model of T-duality that includes constructions of nilmanifolds from tori. This paper shows how one-dimensional foliations on manifolds may be used in a shear construction, which in algebraic form builds certain solvable Lie groups from Abelian ones. We discuss other examples of geo…

2015-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

We describe various constructions in Sasakian geometry. First we generalize the join construction of the first two authors to arbitrary Sasakian manifolds. We then give several examples, including ones which prove the existence of Sasakian-Einstein metrics on manifolds homeomorphic to S2×S5.S^2\times S^5. Then we use a gen…

2006-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We construct bi-invariant total orderings of residually torsion-free nilpotent groups by using Chen's iterated integrals. This construction can be seen as a generalization of the Magnus ordering of the free groups, and equivalent to the classical construction which uses an iteration of central extensions. Our geometric…

2010-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper constructs infinitely many surfaces with specific mean curvature.

problem Creating surfaces with prescribed mean curvature in the presence of a strictly stable minimal surface.
method Synthesizing ideas from previous constructions to create multiple surfaces.
result Infinitely many distinct surfaces with prescribed mean curvature are constructed.

We introduce the cutting construction of possibly non-compact symplectic toric manifolds, in particular, toric symplectic cones that correspond to a weakly convex good cone. Since the symplectization of a toric contact manifold is a toric symplectic cone, we can also construct toric contact manifolds that correspond to…

2013-01-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We construct calibrated submanifolds of R^7 and R^8 by viewing them as total spaces of vector bundles and taking appropriate sub-bundles which are naturally defined using certain surfaces in R^4. We construct examples of associative and coassociative submanifolds of R^7 and of Cayley submanifolds of R^8. This construct…

2004-07-31abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper constructs solutions to a critical Dirac equation on spheres.

problem Solving the critical Dirac equation on spheres with singularities.
method Constructing Delaunay-type solutions and another kind of singular solutions.
result The constructed solutions are building blocks for singular solutions on Spin manifolds.

In this paper, we construct the index bundle gerbe of a family of self-adjoint Dirac-type operators, refining a construction of Segal. In a special case, we construct a geometric bundle gerbe called the caloron bundle gerbe, which comes with a natural connection and curving, and show that it is isomorphic to the analyt…

2011-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Springer varieties appear in both geometric representation theory and knot theory. Motivated by knot theory and categorification Khovanov provides a topological construction of (n/2,n/2)(n/2, n/2) Springer varieties. We extend Khovanov's construction to all two-row Springer varieties. Using the combinatorial and diagrammatic …

2010-07-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This is the second paper in a series of papers aimed at providing a geometric construction of modular functors and topological quantum field theories from conformal field theory building on the constructions in [TUY] and [KNTY]. We give a geometric construct of a modular functor for any simple Lie-algebra and any level…

2003-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

We give an algebro-geometric construction of some of the non-arithmetic ball quotients constructed by the author, Parker and Paupert. The new construction reveals a relationship between the corresponding orbifold fundamental groups and the automorphism group of the Klein quartic, and also with groups constructed by Bar…

2016-05-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The article consists of the Russian and English variants of Ph.D. Thesis in which the answers is given on the following questions: 1. how to construct the spinor formalism for n=6; 2. how to construct the spinor formalism for n=8; 3. how to prolong the Riemannian connection from the tangent bundle into the spinor one w…

2012-04-01abs ↗pdf ↗