Second-order obstruction conjecture for pulling apart four 2-spheres
Second-order obstruction conjecture for pulling apart four 2-spheres
Let be a -manifold and let be a quadruple of immersed -spheres. Suppose that admits an order non-repeating Whitney tower , and let be the order- intersection invariant, valued in . Second-order obstruction conjecture. The spheres in can be pulled apart if and only if
vanishes in . Necessary and sufficient algebraic conditions for arbitrary quadruples are not currently known; this conjecture specifies the desired criterion once the order- intersection relations are formulated.
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Rob Schneiderman and Peter Teichner, “Pulling Apart 2-spheres in 4-manifolds”, arXiv:1210.5534 (2015).
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