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206 APPENDIX A GLOSSARY FLOW CHARTS category theory & set theory injective union surjective quotient map intersection bijective inverse map set element equivalence relation image pre-image object map category 207 point-set topology compactification homeomorphism complete quotient space Hausdor↵ imbedding metric completion gluing paracompact isometry cutting interior continuous cauchy boundary subspace topology compact metric topology convergent limit point connected limit closure topology open metric sequence closed category theory & set theory 208 numbers and algebra modular arithmetic vector space torsion real numbers, R group action module Z/nZ group integers, Z ring rational numbers, Q field binary operation identity element point-set topology cardinality inverse operation metric completion natural numbers, Z+ commutative cauchy, convergence associative metric, sequence linear category theory & set theory 209 linear algebra linear isomorphisms determinants Cramer’s rule multilinear maps tensor products exterior products biinear maps symmetric skew-symmetric definite the plane, R2 linear maps 3-space, R3 bases ordered bases rank inner products n space, Rn dimension orientation − nullity invariance of domain numbers and algebra real numbers, R module, vector space ring, field 210 differential vector calculus critical values the inverse function theorem the regular value theorem the implicit function theorem the constant rank level set theorem higher order mixed partial derivatives Rm n smooth maps A Jacobian matrix in ⇥ represents the m n m immersions and submersions total derivative Dfa of f : R R at a R . ! 2 di↵eomorphisms and embeddings partial derivatives @ @xi a m n m of f : R R at a R ! 2 linear algebra linear maps f : Rn Rm point-set topology ! multilinear map, exterior product continuity, limit linear isomorphisms, determinants 211 manifolds transition functions circles and spheres, submanifolds oriented manifolds S0,S1,S2,S3,Sn,and knots and links in S3 smooth manifolds projective spaces, RPn spanning surfaces in S3 Riemannian manifolds topological manifolds (with or without boundary) coordinate charts atlases of charts linear algebra point-set topology n-space,Rn differential vector calculus continuity, quotient space multilinear map, exterior product higher order mixed partial derivatives cutting, gluing linear isomorphisms, determinants smooth maps Hausdor↵, paracompact inner products Jacobian matrices compact, connected symmetric bilinear mappings interior, boundary, closure orientation 212 covering spaces and fundamental groups structure theorem universal covering spaces the fundamental group path connectedness concatenation of paths local path connectedness the lifting correspondence semilocal simply-connectedness homotopy paths covering spaces homotopy of paths example: R S1 ! homotopy of maps point-set topology continuity, quotient space algebra cutting, gluing groups Hausdor↵, paracompact group actions compact, connected interior, boundary, closure 213 APPENDIX B HOMOLOGY AND KNOTS B.1 Overview Working in the smooth (or piecewise linear) category ensures that every link L S3 ⇢ is tame, meaning that its embedding : n S1 , L S3 extends to an embedding r=1 ! ⇢ of disjoint, compact, solid tori : n SF1 D2 , S3, where (x,0)= (x) for each r=1 ⇥ ! ⇣ ⌘ x n S1. Call the image of a closedF regular neighborhood, or thickening of L, and 2 r=1 F denote this image by ⌫L. Also let ⌫Ls and ⌫Ls respectively denote the closed and open 1 regular neighborhoods of any component Ls = r=s S of L, and let s, s denote the ⇣ ⌘ 3 restrictions = 1 , = . The openF 3-manifold S L is called the link s r=s S s (S1 D2) | | r=s ⇥ \ F complement; the compact 3-manifoldF with boundary S3 ⌫L is called the link exterior. \ Link exteriors provide an (almost too) intuitive setting in which to introduce the basic machinery of singular homology; by contrast, the traditional approach to the sub- ject traces its historical development, following the axiomatic constructions of simplicial homology and singular homology, proving their equivalence, and then deriving proper- ties. This traditional approach is necessary in order to build a solid, logical foundation for homology theory; flowcharts in the Appendices reflect these logical foundations. For ex- pository purposes, however, homology theory for 3-manifolds is all about submanifolds. If M is a 3-manifold, then we consider the following eight homology groups: Z F Hk(M; ) and Hk(M; 2) for k =0,1,2,3, taking coefficients in the integers or in the two- F Z Z Z F element field 2 = /2 . Each element of each Hk(M; ) (resp. Hk(M; 2)) can be seen 214 Figure B.1: Left: a longitude λ and meridian µ on the torus boundary @⌫L of the thickened link ⌫L, in case L is the lh trefoil. Right: a Seifert surface F S3 ⌫L with @F = λ. ⇢ \ as an equivalence class [s] of oriented (resp. unoriented) embedded submanifolds s M ⇢ of dimension n (this fails when M has higher dimension). The equivalence is straightfor- ward in the case of disjoint, connected submanifolds: taking coefficients in the integers Z, a disjoint pair of connected, n-dimensional submanifolds s ,s M are equivalent, 1 2 ⇢ [s ]=[s ], i↵ s s bounds an oriented (n+1)-dimensional submanifold S M, such that 1 2 1 [ 2 ⇢ the induced orientation on @S = s s preserves the orientation on s and reverses that 1 [ 2 1 on s2. In particular, [s1] = 0 and s1 is called nullhomologous if s1 bounds an oriented submanifold S M. The equivalence works the same with coefficients in Z/2Z, omitting ⇢ everything about orientation. Let M = S3 ⌫L be a link exterior, and let M = S3-cut-along-F be a link exterior 1 \ 2 Z Z cut along a spanning surface. In the case of such Mi, i =1,2, both H0(Mi; )= and F F Z F H0(Mi; 2)= 2, since both Mi are path connected, and both H3(Mi; )=0=Hx(Mi, 2), since both Mi, although compact and oriented, have nonempty boundary. Each primitive 215 Z F element of H1(Mi; ) (resp. H1(Mi; 2)) can be seen as a simple closed curve that bounds Z F no oriented (resp. unoriented) surface in Mi, and elements of H2(Mi; ) and H2(Mi; 2) can be seen as embedded surfaces F M (compact and without boundary) that do not ⇢ i bound. The first homology groups, H1, will be the most useful of these groups, because of the linking pairing lk : H (X;Z) H (Y;Z) Z for any disjoint subsets X,Y S3, which 1 ⌦ 1 ! ⇢ is determined by the following property. If ↵ = f (S1) X, β = g(S1) Y are simple closed ⇢ ⇢ curves, then their linking number lk(↵,β) is the degree of a map h defined as follows. Let z S3 (X Y) be any point, let ' : S3 z R3 be stereographic projection, and let 2 \ [ \{ } ! h : S1 S1 S2 be given by ⇥ ! ' g(y) ' f (x) h :(x,y) ◦ − ◦ . (B.1) 7! ' g(y) ' f (x) ◦ − ◦ 3 The degree of this map can be seen, by choosing an “upward” direction in R , as the number of times ↵ passes directly above β in a right-handed way, minus the number of times ↵ passes directly above β in a left-handed way: lk(↵,β)= β β . (B.2) α − α This gives: L L Lr lk(L ,L )= r s L . (B.3) r s − s B.2 Longitudes, meridia, and boundary slopes Given a thickening ⌫L of a link L, first homology groups coming from each link component Ls distinguish two isotopy classes of curves on @⌫Ls, the longitude λs and 216 the meridian µs, which in turn give rise to the extremely useful notion of boundary slopes. A meridian µs is any simple closed curve on @⌫Ls that represents a generator of H (S3 ⌫L ;Z) and is nullhomologous in H (⌫L ;Z). For example, p @D2 is 1 \ s 1 s r=s{ } ⇥ ⇣ ⌘ a meridian for any point p S1.Alongitude λ is any simple closed curveF on @⌫L that 2 s s is nullhomologous in H (S3 ⌫L ;Z) and is a generator of H (⌫L ;Z). Thus, µ bounds 1 \ s 1 s s an oriented surface (in fact a disk) in ⌫Ls but not in @⌫Ls, and a longitude λs bounds an oriented surface in S3 ⌫L but not in @⌫L (c.f. Figure B.1). The Mayer-Vietoris sequence \ s s 3 for S -cut-along @⌫Ls proves that any two meridia on @⌫Ls are isotopic in @⌫Ls, as are any two longitudes (c.f. the Appendix). Recall, given a spanning surface F for a link L, that we isotope F to intersect each component ⌫L of the thickening ⌫L in an annulus. Also assume that each pair (L ,F s s \ @⌫L ) is co-oriented, i.e. that these curves are oriented so that [L ]=[F @⌫L ] in H (⌫L ). s s \ s 1 s The sum of linking numbers n lk(L ,F @⌫L ) is called the net slope of F, and the n- s=1 s \ s tuple (lk(L ,F @⌫L ))n is calledP the boundary slope of F. The latter characterizes the s \ s s=1 isotopy class of F @⌫L on @⌫L: each F @⌫L is homologous on @⌫L to [λ ] + lk(L ,F \ \ s s s s \ @⌫Ls)[µs] when µs is oriented so that lk(Ls,µs) = +1, and simple closed curves on the torus are determined by their homology class. 3 1 3 Explicitly, take an embedding ⇠ : F˙ , S , with ⇠ ˙ = : S , S (and = ! |@F s ! th ˙ 1F ˙ s s, where each s is the restriction of to the s copy Ls of S , and each s(Ls)=Ls isF the sth component of L), and let ' : S3 z R3 be stereographic projection as before, \{ } ! ˙ where z S3 ⇠(F). Also take L to be a pusho↵ of L˙ into F˙, such that the restriction 2 \ s s ˙ ˙ ˙ s := ⇠ ˙ maps Ls to F @⌫Ls =:bLs.
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