Embeddings of manifolds with boundary: classification
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1 Introduction
For a general introduction to embeddings as well as the notation and conventions used on this page, we refer to [Skopenkov2016c, 1, 3]. In those pages mostly results for closed manifolds are stated. In this page we present results peculiar for manifold with non-empty boundary.
If the category is omitted, then a result stated below holds in both the smooth and piecewise-linear (PL) category.
We state only the results that can be deduced from the Haefliger-Weber deleted product criterion [Skopenkov2006, 5], see [Haefliger1963, 6.4], [Skopenkov2002, Theorem 1.1] for the DIFF case and [Skopenkov2002, Theorem 1.3] for the PL case. Usually there exist easier direct proofs than deduction from this criterion. Sometimes we give references to such direct proofs but we do not claim these are original proofs.
2 Classification theorems
Theorem 2.1. Assume that is a closed compact -manifold. Then embeds into .
This is well-known strong Whitney embedding theorem.
Theorem 2.2. Assume that is a compact -manifold with nonempty boundary. Then embeds into .
The Diff case of this result is proved in [Hirsch1961a, Theorem 4.6]. For the PL case see references for Theorem 6.2 below and [Horvatic1971, Theorem 5.2].
Theorem 2.3. Assume that is a compact -manifold and either
(a) or
(b) is connected and .
Then any two embeddings of into are isotopic.
The condition (a) stands for General Position Theorem and the condition (b) stands for Whitney-Wu Unknotting Theorem, see Theorems 2.1 and 2.2 respectively of [Skopenkov2016c, 2]. Note that inequality in part (a) is sharp, see the Hopf link.
Theorem 2.4. Assume that is a compact -manifold with non-empty boundary and either
(a) or
(b) is -connected, .
Then any two embeddings of into are isotopic.
Part (a) of this theorem in case can be found in [Edwards1968, 4, Corollary 5]. Case is clear. Inequality in part (a) is sharp, see Proposition 3.1. Observe that inequality in part (a) is sharp not only for non-connected manifolds but even for connected manifolds. This differs from the case of closed manifolds, see Theorem 2.3.
These basic results can be generalized to the highly-connected manifolds (see 6).
3 Example
The following example is folklore.
Proposition 3.1. Let be the cylinder over . Then there exist non-isotopic embeddings of to .
Proof. Define by the formula , where . Define by the formula .
Recall that is the standard embedding. Then embeddings and are not isotopic. Indeed, the components of are not linked while the components of are linked, for definition of linking coefficient see [Skopenkov2016h, 3, remark 3.2d]This construction is analogous to the Hopf link, see [Skopenkov2016h, 2].
4 Invariants
Denote by the linking coefficient [Skopenkov2016h, 3, remark 3.2d] of two cycles with disjoint support.
By we will denote a connected -manifold such that is the -sphere.
The following folklore result holds.
Lemma 4.1. For each even and each embedding there exists a nowhere vanishing normal vector field to .
Define the dual to Stiefel-Whitney class to be the class of the cycle on which two general position normal fields on are linearly dependent.
Lemma 4.2. Let be an embedding. Let be the boundary of a tubular neighborhood of . Given two homology classes , let be two sections of . Then
where is (Poincare dual to) the first obstruction to being homotopic in the class of the non-zero vector fields.
This Lemma is proved in [Saeki1999, Lemma 2.2] for , but the proof is valid in all dimensions.
Denote by the reduction modulo .
For even and every embedding denote by
where are two closed connected oriented submanifolds of , is a nowhere vanishing normal field to and are the result of shift of by .
Note that does not change when or are changed to homologic submanifolds or when is changed to an isotopic embedding. Thus is a bilinear form on
Lemma 4.3. Let be an embedding. Then for every the following equality holds.
This Lemma was stated in [Tonkonog2010], here we give proof covering a minor gap.
Proof. We get
The first line is clear.
If we shift the link by , we get the link . The linking coefficient will not change after this shift.
The third line follows from Lemma 4.2.
Finally, let us show that . If we generically perturb it will become linearly dependent with only on a 2--dimensional cycle in . And by definition. On the other hand the linear homotopy of to perturbed degenerates on . Thus .
5 Classification
Denote by the set embeddings of into up to isotopy.
6 A generalization to highly-connected manifolds
Theorem 6.1. Assume that is a closed compact -connected -manifold and . Then embeds into .
The Diff case of this result is in [Haefliger1961, Existence Theorem (a)], the PL case of this result is in [Irwin1965, Corollary 1.3].
Theorem 6.2. Assume that is a compact -manifold with nonempty boundary, is -connected and . Then embeds into .
The PL case of this result is proved in [Hudson1969, Theorem 8.3]. For the Diff case see [Haefliger1961, 1.7, remark 2], where Haefliger proposes to use the deleted pruduct criterion to obtain this result.
Theorem 6.3. Assume that is a closed -connected -manifold. Then for each , any two embeddings of into are isotopic.
See Theorem 2.4 of survey [Skopenkov2016c, 2], or [Zeeman1963, Corollary 2 of Theorem 24 in Chapter 8] and [Haefliger1961, Existence Theorem (b) in p. 47].
Theorem 6.4. Assume that is a -connected -manifold with non-empty boundary. Then for each and any two embeddings of into are isotopic.
Theorem 2.4 is a special cases of the latter result. See also [Hudson1969, Theorem 10.3], which is proved using concordance implies isotopy theorem.
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