On Homotopy Invariants of Combings of Three-manifolds

Lescop, Christine

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 67 (2015) no. 1, pp. 152-183

Résumé

Combings of compact, oriented, 3-dimensional manifolds $M$ are homotopy classes of nowhere vanishing vector fields. The Euler class of the normal bundle is an invariant of the combing, and it only depends on the underlying $\text{Spi}{{\text{n}}^{\text{c}}}$ -structure. A combing is called torsion if this Euler class is a torsion element of ${{H}^{2}}(M;\,\mathbb{Z})$ . Gompf introduced a $\mathbb{Q}$ -valued invariant ${{\theta }_{G}}$ of torsion combings on closed 3-manifolds, and he showed that ${{\theta }_{G}}$ distinguishes all torsion combings with the same $\text{Spi}{{\text{n}}^{\text{c}}}$ -structure. We give an alternative definition for ${{\theta }_{G}}$ and we express its variation as a linking number. We define a similar invariant ${{p}_{1}}$ of combings for manifolds bounded by ${{S}^{2}}$ . We relate ${{p}_{1}}$ to the $\Theta$ -invariant, which is the simplest configuration space integral invariant of rational homology 3-balls, by the formula $\Theta \,=\,\frac{1}{4}{{p}_{1}}\,+\,6\text{ }\!\!\lambda\!\!\text{ }\left( {\hat{M}} \right)$ , where $\text{ }\!\!\lambda\!\!\text{ }$ is the Casson-Walker invariant. The article also includes a self-contained presentation of combings for 3-manifolds.

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-2014-031-4

Mots-clés : 57M27, 57R20, 57N10, Spinc-structure, nowhere zero vector fields, first Pontrjagin class, Euler class, Heegaard Floer homology grading, Gompf invariant, Theta invariant, Casson-Walker invariant, perturbative expansion of Chern-Simons theory, configuration space integrals

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