• Title of article

    Isotopy invariants for smooth tori in 4-manifolds

  • Author/Authors

    Fiedler، نويسنده , , Thomas، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2001
  • Pages
    21
  • From page
    1415
  • To page
    1435
  • Abstract
    In this paper we define invariants under smooth isotopy for certain two-dimensional knots using some refined Cerf theory. One of the invariants is the knot type of some classical knot generalizing the string number of closed braids. The other invariant is a generalization of the unique invariant of degree 1 for classical knots in 3-manifolds. Possibly, these invariants can be used to distinguish smooth embeddings of tori in some 4-manifolds but which are equivalent as topological embeddings.
  • Keywords
    Isotopy invariants , Smooth surfaces in 4-mainfolds , Two-dimensional braids
  • Journal title
    Topology
  • Serial Year
    2001
  • Journal title
    Topology
  • Record number

    1545299