Diffeomorphisms of the 4-sphere, Cerf theory and Montesinos twins

Gay, David T.

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Diffeomorphisms of the 4-sphere, Cerf theory and Montesinos twins

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Gay, David T.
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Max Planck Society;

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Gay, D. T. (in press). Diffeomorphisms of the 4-sphere, Cerf theory and Montesinos twins. Algebraic & Geometric Topology, To appear.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-62DA-D

Abstract

One way to better understand the smooth mapping class group of the 4-sphere would be to give a list of generators in the form of explicit diffeomorphisms supported in neighborhoods of submanifolds, in analogy with Dehn twists on surfaces. As a step in this direction, we describe a surjective homomorphism from a group associated to loops of 2-spheres in S2×S2's onto this smooth mapping class group, discuss two natural and in some sense complementary subgroups of the domain of this homomomorphism, show that one is in the kernel, and give generators as above for the image of the other. These generators are described as twists along Montesinos twins, i.e. pairs of embedded 2-spheres in the 4-sphere intersecting transversely at two points.