3-manifolds in 6-space
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1 Examples
1.1 The Haefliger trefoil knot
Let us construct a smooth embedding (which is a generator of ) [Haefliger1962], 4.1. A miraculous property of this embedding is that it is not isotopic to the standard embedding, but is isotopic to the standard embedding.
Denote coordinates in by . The higher-dimensional trefoil knot is obtained by joining with two tubes the higher-dimensional , i.e. the three spheres given by the following three systems of equations:
See Figures 3.5 and 3.6 of [Skopenkov2006].
1.2 The Hopf construction of an embedding
Represent Define
It is easy to check that is an embedding. (The image of this embedding is given by the equations , .)
It would be interesting to obtain an explicit construction of an embedding which is not isotopic to the composition of the Hopf embedding with the standard inclusion . (Such an embedding is unique up to PL isotopy by classification just below the stable range.)
1.3 Algebraic embeddings from the theory of integrable systems
Some 3-manifolds appear in the theory of integrable systems together with their embeddings into (given by a system of algebraic equations) [Bolsinov&Fomenko2004], Chapter 14. E.g. the following system of equations corresponds to the Euler integrability case:
where and are variables while and are constants. This defines embeddings of , or into .
2 Invariants
Let be a closed connected orientable 3-manifold. An orientation-preserving diffeomorphism such that is simply called an . For an isomorphism denote
An isomorphism is called , if over is defined by an isotopy between the restrictions of and to . A spin isomorphism exists because the restrictions to of and are isotopic (see the definition of the Whitney invariant in classification just below the stable range) and because . If is a spin isomorphism, then is spin [Skopenkov2008], Spin Lemma.
Denote by the signature of a 4-manifold . Denote by and Poincar\'e duality (in any manifold ). For and a -submanifold (e.g. or ) denote
If is represented by a closed oriented 4-submanifold in general position to , then is represented by .
A for is the image of the fundamental class under the composition of the Alexander and Poincar\'e duality isomorphisms. A for and is a class such that
If is a spin isomorphism and , then there is a joint homology Seifert surface for and [Skopenkov2008], Agreement Lemma.
We identify with the zero-dimensional homology groups and the -dimensional cohomology groups of closed connected oriented -manifolds. The intersection products in 6-manifolds are omitted from the notation. For a closed connected oriented 6-manifold and denote by
the virtual signature of . (Since , there is a closed connected oriented 4-submanifold representing the class . Then by [Hirzebruch1966], end of 9.2 or else by [Skopenkov2008], Submanifold Lemma.)
Definition 2.1. The Kreck invariant of two embeddings and such that is defined by
where is a spin isomorphism and is a joint homology Seifert surface for and . Cf. [Ekholm2001], 4.1, [Zhubr].
We have , so any closed connected oriented 4-submanifold of representing the class is spin, hence by the Rokhlin Theorem is indeed divisible by 16. The Kreck invariant is well-defined by [Skopenkov2008], Independence Lemma.
For fix an embedding such that and define . (We write not for simplicity.)
The choice of the other orientation for (resp. ) will in general give rise to different values for the Kreck invariant. But such a choice only permutes the bijection (resp. replaces it with the bijection ).
Let us present a formula for the Kreck invariant analogous to [Guillou&Marin1986], Remarks to the four articles of Rokhlin, II.2.7 and III.excercises.IV.3, [Takase2004], Corollary 6.5, [Takase2006], Proposition 4.1. This formula is useful when an embedding goes through or is given by a system of equations (because we can obtain a `Seifert surface' by changing the equality to the inequality in one of the equations). See also [Moriyama, Integral formula for an extension of Haeliger's embedding invariant].
The Kreck Invariant Lemma 2.2.[Skopenkov2008] Let be two embeddings such that , a spin isomorphism, a closed connected oriented 4-submanifold representing a joint homology Seifert surface and , are the Pontryagin number and Poincar\'e dual of the Euler classes of the normal bundle of in . Then
3 Classification
The results of this page are proved in [Skopenkov2008] unless other references are given. Let be a closed connected orientable 3-manifold.
Classification Theorem 3.1. The Whitney invariant
is surjective. For each the Kreck invariant
is bijective, where is the divisibility of the projection of to the free part of .
Recall that for an abelian group the divisibility of zero is zero and the divisibility of is . Definition of the Kreck invariant. All isotopy classes of embeddings can be constructed (from a certain given embedding) using connected sum with embeddings , see the construction in classification just below the stable range and in some general remarks.
Corollary 3.2.
- The Kreck invariant is a 1--1 correspondence if is or an integral homology sphere [Haefliger1966], [Hausmann1972], [Takase2006]. (For the Kreck invariant is also a group isomorphism; this does not follows from the Classification Theorem 3.1 but is proved in [Haefliger1966].)
- If (i.e. is a rational homology sphere, e.g. ), then is in (non-canonical) 1--1 correspondence with .
- Embeddings with zero Whitney invariant are in 1--1 correspondence with , and for each integer there are exactly distinct (i.e. non-isotopic) embeddings with the Whitney invariant , cf. Corollary 3.4 below.
- The Whitney invariant is surjective and .
Addendum 3.3. If is an embedding, is the generator of and is a connected sum of copies of , then
E. g. for the `connected sum' action of on is free while for we have the following corollary. (We believe that this very concrete corollary or the case are as non-trivial as the general case of the Classification Theorem.)
Corollary 3.4.
- There is an embedding such that for each knot the embedding is isotopic to .
- For each embedding such that (e.g. for the standard embedding ) and each non-trivial knot the embedding is not isotopic to .
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