Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4659853 | Topology and its Applications | 2008 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
Our main result is a generalization of Cappell's 5-dimensional splitting theorem. As an application, we analyze, up to internal s-cobordism, the smoothable splitting and fibering problems for certain 5-manifolds mapping to the circle. For example, these maps may have homotopy fibers which are in the class of finite connected sums of certain geometric 4-manifolds. Most of these homotopy fibers have non-vanishing second mod 2 homology and have fundamental groups of exponential growth, which are not known to be tractable by Freedman–Quinn topological surgery. Indeed, our key technique is topological cobordism, which may not be the trace of surgeries.
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