Mathematics – Geometric Topology
Scientific paper
2008-07-14
Mathematics
Geometric Topology
27 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
It is a natural consequence of fundamental properties of the Casson invariant that the Rokhlin invariant of an amphichiral integral homology 3-sphere M vanishes. In this paper, we give a new direct proof of this vanishing property. For such an M, we construct a manifold pair (Y,Q) of dimensions 6 and 3 equipped with some additional structure (6-dimensional spin e-manifold), such that Q = M \cup M \cup (-M) and (Y,Q) \cong (-Y,-Q). We prove that (Y,Q) bounds a 7-dimensional spin e-manifold (Z,X) by studying the cobordism group of 6-dimensional spin e-manifolds and the Z/2-actions on the two--point configuration space of M minus one point. For any such (Z,X), the signature of X vanishes, and this implies the vanishing of the Rokhlin invariant. The idea of the construction of (Y,Q) comes from the definition of the Kontsevich-Kuperberg-Thurston invariant for rational homology 3-spheres.
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