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author Bastl, Stefan
Burke, Rhuaidi
Chatterjee, Rima
Dey, Subhankar
Durst, Alison
Friedl, Stefan
Galvin, Daniel
Rivas, Alejandro García
Hirsch, Tobias
Hobohm, Cara
Hsueh, Chun-Sheng
Kegel, Marc
Kern, Frieda
Lee, Shun Ming Samuel
Löh, Clara
Manikandan, Naageswaran
Mousseau, Léo
Munser, Lars
Pencovitch, Mark
Perras, Patrick
Powell, Mark
Quintanilha, José Pedro
Schambeck, Lisa
Suchodoll, David
Tancer, Martin
Thiele, Annika
Truöl, Paula
Uschold, Matthias
Veselá, Simona
Weiß, Melvin
von Wunsch-Rolshoven, Magdalina
author_facet Bastl, Stefan
Burke, Rhuaidi
Chatterjee, Rima
Dey, Subhankar
Durst, Alison
Friedl, Stefan
Galvin, Daniel
Rivas, Alejandro García
Hirsch, Tobias
Hobohm, Cara
Hsueh, Chun-Sheng
Kegel, Marc
Kern, Frieda
Lee, Shun Ming Samuel
Löh, Clara
Manikandan, Naageswaran
Mousseau, Léo
Munser, Lars
Pencovitch, Mark
Perras, Patrick
Powell, Mark
Quintanilha, José Pedro
Schambeck, Lisa
Suchodoll, David
Tancer, Martin
Thiele, Annika
Truöl, Paula
Uschold, Matthias
Veselá, Simona
Weiß, Melvin
von Wunsch-Rolshoven, Magdalina
contents We show that there exists an algorithm that takes as input two closed, simply connected, topological 4-manifolds and decides whether or not these 4-manifolds are homeomorphic. In particular, we explain in detail how closed, simply connected, topological 4-manifolds can be naturally represented by a Kirby diagram consisting only of 2-handles. This representation is used as input for our algorithm. Along the way, we develop an algorithm to compute the Kirby-Siebenmann invariant of a closed, simply connected, topological 4-manifold from any of its Kirby diagrams and describe an algorithm that decides whether or not two intersection forms are isometric. In a slightly different direction, we discuss the decidability of the stable classification of smooth manifolds with more general fundamental groups. Here we show that there exists an algorithm that takes as input two closed, oriented, smooth 4-manifolds with fundamental groups isomorphic to a finite group with cyclic Sylow 2-subgroup, an infinite cyclic group, or a group of geometric dimension at most 3 (in the latter case we additionally assume that the universal covers of both 4-manifolds are not spin), and decides whether or not these two 4-manifolds are orientation-preserving stably diffeomorphic.
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spellingShingle Algorithms in 4-manifold topology
Bastl, Stefan
Burke, Rhuaidi
Chatterjee, Rima
Dey, Subhankar
Durst, Alison
Friedl, Stefan
Galvin, Daniel
Rivas, Alejandro García
Hirsch, Tobias
Hobohm, Cara
Hsueh, Chun-Sheng
Kegel, Marc
Kern, Frieda
Lee, Shun Ming Samuel
Löh, Clara
Manikandan, Naageswaran
Mousseau, Léo
Munser, Lars
Pencovitch, Mark
Perras, Patrick
Powell, Mark
Quintanilha, José Pedro
Schambeck, Lisa
Suchodoll, David
Tancer, Martin
Thiele, Annika
Truöl, Paula
Uschold, Matthias
Veselá, Simona
Weiß, Melvin
von Wunsch-Rolshoven, Magdalina
Geometric Topology
57K40, 57K10, 57R65
We show that there exists an algorithm that takes as input two closed, simply connected, topological 4-manifolds and decides whether or not these 4-manifolds are homeomorphic. In particular, we explain in detail how closed, simply connected, topological 4-manifolds can be naturally represented by a Kirby diagram consisting only of 2-handles. This representation is used as input for our algorithm. Along the way, we develop an algorithm to compute the Kirby-Siebenmann invariant of a closed, simply connected, topological 4-manifold from any of its Kirby diagrams and describe an algorithm that decides whether or not two intersection forms are isometric. In a slightly different direction, we discuss the decidability of the stable classification of smooth manifolds with more general fundamental groups. Here we show that there exists an algorithm that takes as input two closed, oriented, smooth 4-manifolds with fundamental groups isomorphic to a finite group with cyclic Sylow 2-subgroup, an infinite cyclic group, or a group of geometric dimension at most 3 (in the latter case we additionally assume that the universal covers of both 4-manifolds are not spin), and decides whether or not these two 4-manifolds are orientation-preserving stably diffeomorphic.
title Algorithms in 4-manifold topology
topic Geometric Topology
57K40, 57K10, 57R65
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08775