Higher Order Intersections in Low-Dimensional Topology

Details Higher Order Intersections in Low-Dimensional Topology Higher Order Intersections in Low-Dimensional Topology

2010-11-28

arxiv.org/abs/1011.6026v1

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Geometric Topology

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We show how to measure the failure of the Whitney trick in dimension 4 by constructing higher- order intersection invariants of Whitney towers built from iterated Whitney disks on immersed surfaces in 4-manifolds. For Whitney towers on immersed disks in the 4-ball, we identify some of these new invariants with previously known link invariants like Milnor, Sato-Levine and Arf invariants. We also define higher- order Sato-Levine and Arf invariants and show that these invariants detect the obstructions to framing a twisted Whitney tower. Together with Milnor invariants, these higher-order invariants are shown to classify the existence of (twisted) Whitney towers of increasing order in the 4-ball. A conjecture regarding the non- triviality of the higher-order Arf invariants is formulated, and related implications for filtrations of string links and 3-dimensional homology cylinders are described. This article is an announcement and summary of results to be published in several forthcoming papers.

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