Models for knot spaces and Atiyah duality

Moriya, Syunji¹

¹ Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Osaka Metropolitan University, Sakai, Japan

Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Tome 24 (2024) no. 1, pp. 183-250

Résumé

Let Emb ⁡ (S1,M) be the space of smooth embeddings from the circle to a closed manifold M. We introduce a new spectral sequence converging to H∗(Emb ⁡ (S1,M)) for a simply connected closed manifold M of dimension 4 or more, which has an explicit E1–page and a computable E2–page. As applications, we compute some part of the cohomology for M = Sk × Sl with some conditions on the dimensions k and l, and prove that the inclusion Emb ⁡ (S1,M) → Imm ⁡ (S1,M) to the immersions induces an isomorphism on π1 for some simply connected 4–manifolds. This gives a restriction on a question posed by Arone and Szymik. The idea to construct the spectral sequence is to combine a version of Sinha’s cosimplicial model for the knot space and a spectral sequence for a configuration space by Bendersky and Gitler. The cosimplicial model consists of configuration spaces of points (with a tangent vector) in M. We use Atiyah duality to transfer the structure maps on the configuration spaces to maps on Thom spectra of the quotient of a direct product of M by the fat diagonal. This transferred structure is the key to defining our spectral sequence, and is also used to show that Sinha’s model can be resolved into simpler pieces in a stable category.

Détail

DOI : 10.2140/agt.2024.24.183

Keywords: embedding calculus, operad, knot space