Pulling-apart criterion for four components in a simply connected 4-manifold
Pulling-apart criterion for four components in a simply connected 4-manifold
Let be a simply connected -manifold, and let support an order- non-repeating Whitney tower . Let be the order- intersection invariant, and let be the quotient by the intersection relations defined in Section 8 of Schneiderman and Teichner's work. Pulling-apart conjecture. The components of can be pulled apart if and only if
is zero. This gives a proposed complete obstruction for pulling apart four components in the first partially understood non-repeating case. The conjecture remains open.
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Rob Schneiderman, “Introduction to Whitney Towers”, arXiv:2012.01475 (2020).
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