Expansion conjecture for Seifert fibered spaces over the 2-sphere

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Let YY be a Seifert fibered space over S2S^2 with ε(Y)>0\varepsilon(Y)>0. An expansion is the operation described in the paper, and a sequence of expansions may be empty. For integers and rational parameters as displayed, write

Y=S2(1;p1q1,,plql).Y'=S^2\left(1;\frac{p_1}{q_1},\ldots,\frac{p_l}{q_l}\right).

Expansion conjecture. The space YY smoothly embeds in S4S^4 if and only if it is obtained by a possibly empty sequence of expansions from some YY' of the displayed form, with

piqi>1\frac{p_i}{q_i}>1

for every ii, such that YY' also smoothly embeds in S4S^4.

This would reduce the embedding problem for Seifert fibered spaces over S2S^2 with positive normalized Euler invariant to the subclass of partitionable spaces and their expansions. The preceding discussion gives constructions in one direction and explains that the conjecture would exclude the unresolved family with a complementary class of size three, but no resolution is supplied here.

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Primary source

Ahmad Issa and Duncan McCoy, “Smoothly embedding Seifert fibered spaces in S^4”, arXiv:1810.04770 (2018).

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