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Wang sequence of a mapping torus
Statement
Let be a homeomorphism and form its mapping-torus bundle For every , with , its Wang sequence has map and yields a natural short exact sequence No splitting, natural or otherwise, is asserted.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: a homeomorphism , its displayed mapping-torus bundle, the positive orientation of , and integral coefficients.
Fiber transport and monodromy action defines transport and its induced homology monodromy.
Wang sequence for a fibration over the circle gives the natural long exact sequence with map for positive-loop transport and specifies the simultaneous sign change under orientation reversal.
Verification
Away from the identified endpoint, the quotient projection has product charts. Across the endpoint, use one interval on the side and one on the side, changing the fiber coordinate by in one direction and by in the other. Thus the displayed map is the standard mapping-torus fiber bundle. Lifting the positive base loop from to starts at and ends at the class of , which equals the class of . Hence [F1] gives .
Substitute into the five-term part of [F2]: Exactness gives , so descends to an injection from the displayed cokernel, whose image is . It also gives , so corestricts to a surjection onto the displayed kernel. These two conclusions are exactly the claimed short exact sequence.
For , the right group is zero by the stated convention, so the conclusion is the literal isomorphism . If is empty, all three nonzero-index groups are zero and the same sequence is exact. If , both Wang maps vanish and the sequence becomes , still without selecting a splitting. Orientation reversal replaces by ; multiplication by leaves its kernel, image, and cokernel canonically isomorphic. Thus zero maps, identity monodromy, both exactness endpoints, and both orientation signs are covered. The argument uses no choice principle and proves no converse.
Source notes
Hatcher's proof of the Serre sequence, printed pp. 526–532, specializes over the one-cell circle to the two-column exact couple underlying Wang. The local Wang theorem [F2] supplies that derived sequence; steps 1.1–2.1 provide the mapping-torus monodromy and the complete kernel-cokernel extraction.
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Used by
- Ignoring monodromy gives the wrong Serre E2 page Counterexample
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Sources
- Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Serre sequence over the circle (standard reference, not scraped)