Questions about surgery theory

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Read {{cite|Kervaire&Milnor1963}} and/or {{cite|Browder1972}} and/or {{cite|Ranicki2002|Chapter 12}}.
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=== CW structures on topological manifolds ===
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Topological manifolds of dimension $\leq 3$ have a piecewise lienar (in fact a differentiable)
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structure, and a fortiori are triangulable. Topological manifolds of dimension $\geq 5$ have a handlebody
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structure, and hence a $CW$ structure; it is still not known whether there exist non-triangulable
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examples. It is known that there exist non-triangulable topological 4-manifolds, such as the Freedman
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$E_8$-manifold. Do topological 4-manifolds have a $CW$ structure?
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Revision as of 14:43, 15 August 2010

This page organizes questions and answers about surgery theory.

The natural first port of call for quick answers is Mathoverflow.

Below is a list of questions, possibly with answers.

The Atlas also has a chapter Questions for questions which attract longer answers.

Contents

1 Questions

1.1 How can you tell if a space is homotopy equivalent to a manifold?

This is in fact a Mathoverflow question.

1.2 Simply connected surgery obstruction groups

How does one prove that L_{4j}(e)=\Zz, L_{4j+2}(e)=\Zz_2 and L_{2k+1}(e) = 0 ?

Read [Kervaire&Milnor1963] and/or [Browder1972] and/or [Ranicki2002, Chapter 12].

1.3 CW structures on topological manifolds

Topological manifolds of dimension \leq 3 have a piecewise lienar (in fact a differentiable) structure, and a fortiori are triangulable. Topological manifolds of dimension \geq 5 have a handlebody structure, and hence a CW structure; it is still not known whether there exist non-triangulable examples. It is known that there exist non-triangulable topological 4-manifolds, such as the Freedman E_8-manifold. Do topological 4-manifolds have a CW structure?

2 References

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