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…
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The paper defines and classifies Cappell-Shaneson polynomials.
New research finds 145 infinite families of CS spheres are standard.
We show that an infinite sequence of homotopy 4-spheres constructed by Cappell-Shaneson are all diffeomorphic to S^4. This generalizes previous results of Akbulut-Kirby and Gompf.
New homotopy 4-spheres and real projective 4-spaces created.
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…
New examples of Cappell-Shaneson knot pairs with same Alexander polynomial found.
New non-orientable 4-manifolds created via knotting operations.
We show that one of the Cappell-Shaneson knot complements admits an extraordinarily small triangulation, containing only two 4-dimensional simplices.
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…
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…
While topologists have had possession of possible counterexamples to the smooth 4-dimensional Poincaré conjecture (SPC4) for over 30 years, until recently no invariant has existed which could potentially distinguish these examples from the standard 4-sphere. Rasmussen's s-invariant, a slice obstruction within the gener…
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…
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…
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…
We provide a generalization of the Deligne sheaf construction of intersection homology theory, and a corresponding generalization of Poincaré duality on pseudomanifolds, such that the Goresky-MacPherson, Goresky-Siegel, and Cappell-Shaneson duality theorems all arise as special cases. Unlike classical intersection homo…
Kervaire's sphere-link is equivalent to a ribbon sphere-link, simplifying complex 2-complexes.
New theory proves infinite homology 3-spheres in homology 4-spheres.
The 3-sphere has either 2 minimal 2-spheres or an optimal foliation by 2-spheres.
Infinitely many splitting spheres found for unlinked 2-spheres in 4-space.
Reduces weak reducing pairs to spheres in 3-sphere Heegaard surfaces.
The study shows how to construct -spheres from -spheres and -balls without additional vertices.
New proof for sphere recognition algorithm.
Proves stability of convex spheres with similar geodesic lengths.
Soliton spheres are immersed 2-spheres in the conformal 4-sphere S^4=HP^1 that allow rational, conformal parametrizations f:CP^1->HP^1 obtained via twistor projection and dualization from rational curves in CP^{2n+1}. Soliton spheres can be characterized as the case of equality in the quaternionic Pluecker estimate. A …
Study on sphere immersions and their stability indices.
The paper constructs biharmonic maps between spheres using polynomial maps.
Characterizes a specific type of convex curves on a 3-sphere.
Reduces connectivity problem for genus-4 Heegaard surface in 3-sphere.
Author provides an alternate proof of the free ribbon lemma.
Paper studies inscribed sphere and lines through centers of Apollonius spheres in n dimensions.
Sharp convergence theorem for sphere submanifolds proved.
In the 1-parameter family of Berger spheres S^3(a), a > 0 (S^3(1) is the round 3-sphere of radius 1) we classify the stable constant mean curvature spheres, showing that in some Berger spheres (a close to 0) there are unstable constant mean curvature spheres. Also, we classify the orientable compact stable constant mea…
We introduce and study a new class of homotopy spheres called Farrell-Jones spheres. Using Farrell-Jones sphere we construct examples of closed negatively curved manifolds , where or , which are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to complex hyperbolic manifolds, thereby giving a partial answer to a que…
In this paper we show that for m>n the set of cobordism classes of maps from m-sphere to n-sphere is trivial. The determination of the cobordism homotopy groups of spheres admits applications to the covers for spheres.
Study finds infinite families of Sasaki-Einstein metrics on spheres.
We show that among Seifert fibered integer homology spheres, Poincare sphere (with either orientation) is the only non-trivial example which has trivial Heegaard Floer homology. Together with an earlier result, this shows that if an integer homology sphere has trivial Heegaard Floer homology, then it is a connected sum…
We prove a Reeb sphere theorem for finite simple graphs. The result bridges two different definitions of spheres in graph theory. We also reformulate Morse conditions in terms of the center manifolds, the level surface graphs {f=f(x)} in the unit sphere S(x). In the Morse case these graphs are either spheres, the empty…
Study biharmonic hypersurfaces in spheres, proving unique continuation theorem.
Standard proved to be diffeomorphic to a curious homotopy sphere.
Formula derived for discrete improper affine spheres.
We provide a computer-assisted proof of the holomorphy of the quartic and the octic meromorphic differentials arising in the main Theorem 4.11 of our paper 'The Classification of Branched Willmore spheres in the -Sphere and the -Sphere' (arXiv:1706.01405), using the free mathematical software Sage.
New actions found on exotic spheres using group theory.
Here we generalize the Gromoll-Meyer construction of an exotic 7-sphere by producing geometric models of exotic 8, 10 and Kervaire spheres as quotients of sphere bundles over spheres by free isometric actions. We give a geometric application at the end.
New bounds and examples for sphere unknotting numbers.
We construct a new infinite family of models of exotic 7-spheres. These models are direct generalizations of the Gromoll-Meyer sphere. From their symmetries, geodesics and submanifolds half of them are closer to the standard 7-sphere than any other known model for an exotic 7-sphere.
Survey of Dupin hypersurfaces in Lie sphere geometry.
Paper studies spaces of flattenings of simplicial spheres and their homotopy type.