A stability range for topological 4-manifolds

2022/09/02 by Ian Hambleton, Hambleton, Ian
Mathematics · #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2209.01189

Abstract

We introduce a new stable range invariant for the classification of closed, oriented topological 4-manifolds (up to s-cobordism), after stabilization by connected sum with a uniformly bounded number of copies of S²× S².

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