Existence of exotic diffeomorphisms relative to any closed oriented 3-manifold boundary
Existence of exotic diffeomorphisms relative to any closed oriented 3-manifold boundary
Let be a closed, connected, oriented -manifold. A compact, oriented smooth -manifold with boundary has mapping class groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms, including the versions fixing the boundary pointwise, and an exotic diffeomorphism is a nontrivial element in the kernel of the corresponding map on . Exotic diffeomorphism conjecture. There exists such a for which
is not injective. More strongly,
is not injective. This proposes that every closed, connected, oriented -manifold occurs as the boundary of a compact smooth -manifold admitting an exotic diffeomorphism, and the stronger assertion also detects one without requiring boundary fixing.
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Nobuo Iida, Hokuto Konno, Anubhav Mukherjee and Masaki Taniguchi, “Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds with boundary and exotic embeddings”, arXiv:2203.14878 (2024).
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