Degree-one maps, surgery and four-manifolds

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2008-09-18

arxiv.org/abs/0809.3102v1

Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 39 (2007), no. 3, 419--424

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Geometric Topology

11 pages

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We give a description of degree-one maps between closed, oriented 3-manifolds in terms of surgery. Namely, we show that there is a degree-one map from a closed, oriented 3-manifold $M$ to a closed, oriented 3-manifold $N$ if and only if $M$ can be obtained from $N$ by surgery about a link in $N$ each of whose components is an unknot. We use this to interpret the existence of degree-one maps between closed 3-manifolds in terms of smooth 4-manifolds. More precisely, we show that there is a degree-one map from $M$ to $N$ if and only if there is a smooth embedding of $M$ in $W=(N\times I)#_n \bar{\C P^2}#_m {\C P^2}$, for some $m\geq 0$, $n\geq 0$ which separates the boundary components of $W$. This is motivated by the relation to topological field theories, in particular the invariants of Ozsvath and Szabo.

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