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Surgery is reversed by dual surgery
Statement
Assume (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()). Let be a closed connected smooth -manifold, , , let be a framed embedded surgery sphere in with trace and surgered manifold , and let be the dual surgery sphere of dimension , with its canonical framing (Dual surgery sphere). Then the -surgery on along produces a closed smooth -manifold diffeomorphic to , the diffeomorphism being the identity outside the union of the removed tubular piece and the glued . Equivalently, the two spherical modifications are inverse operations up to diffeomorphism, and the trace is the supporting manifold of both. The construction is compatible with the framings: the dual framing is the one for which this holds.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: the closed connected smooth -manifold , integers and , the framed embedded surgery sphere , the trace , the surgered manifold and the dual surgery sphere .
p-surgery on a smooth m-manifold: writing , the surgered manifold is , with the smooth structure given by collars and a compatible smoothing of the seam; the identification on the overlap is the restriction of the supplied product embedding.
Dual surgery sphere: the dual surgery sphere is , of dimension , framed by the -factor directions, and the dual operation is the -surgery on along ; the dual piece is because and .
Framed embedded surgery sphere: a framed embedded surgery sphere of dimension is an embedding ; its boundary is .
The outgoing boundary of a handle attachment trades the disk factors: the two faces of the trace handle are and , with common boundary . The replacement piece in the dual surgery is , with boundary .
Diffeomorphisms and local diffeomorphisms of manifolds: a diffeomorphism is a bijective smooth map with smooth inverse.
Gluing handle Morse models along collars, proof steps 1.2–2.1: in dimension and for , the elementary band with , and has incoming face , outgoing face and product side . Gluing its side to the complement times the height interval gives the prescribed handle trace up to diffeomorphism and absorption of outer regular collars.
The surgery gluing has a canonical smooth structure up to diffeomorphism: different auxiliary collars and compatible seam presentations of the same surgery are related by a diffeomorphism supported near the seam.
Proof
Given: the objects and hypotheses of the statement.
By [F1] the surgered manifold is the union of with the glued handle along the boundary . The dual sphere lies in that handle, and by [F2] its framing exhibits the product ; the closed glued-in product is a framed product neighbourhood of in , so the dual surgery of [F2] removes exactly the interior of the glued handle and glues along .
Removing the interior of the glued handle from leaves the complement with boundary , up to a collar; by [F4] the boundary of is , and the gluing identification is the given framing on that overlap. Hence the surgered manifold of the dual operation is
The factor swap identifies with and its boundary with . Composing with identifies the quotient in step 2.1 with , where . Choose the signed seam collars transported from for this reconstruction; the map is smooth across the seam and is the identity on . Other collar choices are compared by [F7], with support near the seam. This gives the asserted diffeomorphism and support.
To identify the supporting manifold, use [F6] with and , so since . Write its elementary band as , with and . At the coordinates are for , ; at they are for , . Glue the side to using on the sphere coordinates. By [F6] this is up to diffeomorphism. Now exchange with and reverse the height on the complementary product. The inequalities defining are invariant, changes to , and the old outgoing coordinates become the incoming coordinates. Their disk derivative along is the product normal framing of [F2]. The same side gluing, read backwards, is therefore the elementary band for that dual framed surgery on . Applying [F6] with identifies it with the dual trace, after absorbing outer collars; compatible roundings are compared by Smooth handle attachment is independent of corner rounding up to diffeomorphism. Thus both traces have the same supporting manifold up to diffeomorphism.
Depends on
- Framed embedded surgery sphere
- p-surgery on a smooth m-manifold
- Surgery trace cobordism
- The outgoing boundary of a handle attachment trades the disk factors
- The upper boundary of the surgery trace is the surgered manifold
- Dual surgery sphere
- Attaching a smooth handle with corner rounding
- Smooth handle attachment is independent of corner rounding up to diffeomorphism
- Diffeomorphisms and local diffeomorphisms of manifolds
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
- The surgery gluing has a canonical smooth structure up to diffeomorphism
- Gluing handle Morse models along collars
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Sources
- C. T. C. Wall, Differential Topology (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 156, Cambridge University Press 2016) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Andrew Ranicki, Algebraic and Geometric Surgery (Oxford Mathematical Monographs, 2002; electronic copy) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Wolfgang Lück, A Basic Introduction to Surgery Theory (lecture notes, Münster, 27 October 2004) (standard reference, not scraped)