Diffeomorphisms of some smooth metastably connected manifolds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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Let Mm be a closed connected smooth manifold of dimension m, and set Pm = Mm – int Dm where Dm is a disc in M. In (4), Wall has the following exact sequence
where (M), (resp. (P)) is the Δ-set of diffeomorphisms of M (resp. P) as in(l), and [M/P] is the set of diffeomorphism classes of smooth manifolds obtained by glueing a disc to the boundary of P. In this paper we obtain some results on π0((M)) for particular M, and in the following sense: Using the techniques of (2), we can determine π0((P)), so the main portion of the paper is concerned with a discussion of the kernel of α. There is a map ω: π1((P)) → Γm+1, given by the obstruction to extending h∈π1((P)) to a concordance of the identity of M to itself, and it is clear that if this map is attached at the beginning of the sequence (*) we get exactness. We will obtain (for certain M) an alternative description of the image of α in terms of those homotopy spheres which can appear as the boundaries of thickenings.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 71 , Issue 1 , January 1972 , pp. 19 - 23
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