Pull-apart obstruction conjecture for non-repeating Whitney towers
Pull-apart obstruction conjecture for non-repeating Whitney towers
Let be a collection of immersed -spheres in a -manifold, and suppose that is defined using an order non-repeating Whitney tower , with values in . Pull-apart obstruction conjecture. For every , can be pulled apart if and only if
vanishes in . This would refine the known necessary obstruction theory into a necessary and sufficient criterion; the required intersection relations are not yet fully formulated, and the claim is posed as a challenge for future work.
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Primary source
Rob Schneiderman and Peter Teichner, “Pulling Apart 2-spheres in 4-manifolds”, arXiv:1210.5534 (2015).
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