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Spaces of knotted circles and exotic smooth structures
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Arone, Gregory Szymik, Markus |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Suppose that $N_1$ and $N_2$ are closed smooth manifolds of dimension $n$ that are homeomorphic. We prove that the spaces of smooth knots $Emb(S^1, N_1)$ and $Emb(S^1, N_2)$ have the same homotopy $(2n-7)$-type. In the 4-dimensional case this means that the spaces of smooth knots in homeomorphic 4-manifolds have sets $\pi_0$ of components that are in bijection, and the corresponding path components have the same fundamental groups $\pi_1$. The result about $\pi_0$ is well-known and elementary, but the result about $\pi_1$ appears to be new. The result gives a negative partial answer to a question of Oleg Viro. Our proof uses the Goodwillie-Weiss embedding tower. We give a new model for the quadratic stage of the Goodwillie-Weiss tower, and prove that the homotopy type of the quadratic approximation of the space of knots in $N$ does not depend on the smooth structure on $N$. Our results also give a lower bound on $\pi_2 Emb(S^1, N)$. We use our model to show that both $\pi_1$ and $\pi_2$ of $Emb(S^1, S^1\times S^3)$ contain infinitely generated free abelian groups. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://export.arxiv.org/pdf/1909.00978 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.00978v3.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
