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TOPOLOGY

Ciprian Manolescu UCLA

DHC Ceremony, Babes-Bolyai University July 11, 2018

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What is the shape of the Earth?

We don’t know, so here’s an easier question:

What is the shape of the universe?

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Near each point, the Earth looks like flat space:

We say it is a two-dimensional manifold.

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Actually, the Earth is a geoid:

But in topology we do not distinguish between objects that can be deformed into each other without breaking them

Geoid = Sphere

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For topologists, a coffee mug is the same as a donut:

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However, the sphere is topologically different from the donut, and from the flat (Euclidean) space.

Classification of two dimensional manifolds:

Euclidean space

. . . . . .

. . .

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What is the shape of the universe?

Finite or infinite?

Near each point, it looks like three dimensional Euclidean space

We say it’s a three dimensional manifold.

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Physicists propose various answers:

1. Infinite (flat)

2. Poincare dodecahedral space (Luminet et al 2003)

3. Picard horn (Aurich et al 2004) etc.

The job of mathematicians is to classify all possible manifolds.

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Higher dimensions

String theory: the universe may have hidden dimensions Topology: classify manifolds of any dimension n

n=0,1,2,3,4,5,6…

A manifold of dimension n is a space such that near each point we can move in n directions (n degrees of freedom) n=0: point .

n=1: line circle

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n=2:

Euclidean space

. . .

. . .

. . .

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Thurston (1982) proposed a classification scheme in dimension three

. . .

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Thurston Geometrization Conjecture

The classification was showed to be true by Perelman (2003)

This implies the Poincaré conjecture, one of the seven Clay Millennium Problems ($1 million)

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Higher dimensions

n=4, 5, 6, … Examples:

n-dimensional Euclidean space n-dimensional sphere

Theorem: One cannot classify manifolds of dimension 4 or higher.

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Triangulations

Manifolds of dimension 0, 1, 2, 3 can be triangulated:

This is not true for manifolds of dimension 4, 5, 6, … !

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Higher dimensions

Theorem: One cannot classify manifolds of dimension 4 or higher.

Instead, we can focus on simply-connected manifolds, those on which we can contract every loop:

Simply connected

Not simply connected

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Classification of n-dimensional simply- connected manifolds:

Doable in dimensions n=5,6,7,… (1960’s) Unknown in dimension n=4

Four-dimensional topology is the hardest!

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Smooth structures

If you can deform two shapes into each other without breaking them, can you deform them without making corners?

If you can’t, we say that they represent different smooth structures on the same manifold.

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Smooth structures

In dimensions n=0,1,2,3, every manifold has a unique smooth structure

The first exotic smooth structures were found by Milnor (1956) on the 7-dimensional sphere

n-dimensional Euclidean space has:

a unique smooth structure if n=0,1,2,3, 5,6,7,8,9, ….

infinitely many smooth structures if n=4

(cf. Donaldson, Gompf 1980’s)

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n-dimensional sphere

(cf. Kervaire-Milnor 1963)

dimension # structures

1 1

2 1

3 1

4 ?

5 1

6 1

7 28

8 2

9 8

10 6

dimension # structures

11 992

12 1

13 3

14 2

15 16256

16 2

17 16

18 16

19 523264

20 24

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An open question in topology

The smooth four-dimensional Poincaré conjecture:

Is there a unique smooth structure on the 4-dimensional sphere?

?

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Earth sphere: http://www.freepik.com/free-vector/big-crystal-earth-sphere_677399.htm Tangent space: http://rqgravity.net/BasicsOfCurvature

Two-dimensional Euclidean space: http://spaceguard.iasf-roma.inaf.it/NScience/neo/dictionary/newton.htm

Geoid: Image courtesy of the University of Texas Center for Space Research and NASA.

http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/foundations/gravity_surveys/ggm01_americas.html Coffee mug turning into doughnut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology

Compact two-dimensional manifolds: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CompactManifold.html

Three-manifold three-torus: An image from inside a 3-torus, generated by Jeff Weeks' CurvedSpaces software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3- manifold#mediaviewer/File:3-Manifold_3-Torus.png

Poincare dodecahedral space: View from inside PDS along an arbitrary direction, calculated by the CurvedSpaces program, with multiple images of the Earth (from Jeff Weeks).

http://www.science20.com/news_releases/poincare_dodecahedral_space_model_gains_support_to_explain_the_shape_of_space

Grigori Perelman, solver of Poincaré conjecture, gives a lecture on his solution at New York’s Weaver Hall in 2003. Photograph: Frances M Roberts. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/27/perfect-rigour-grigori-perelman-review

A function (blue) and a piecewise linear approximation to it (red). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piecewise_linear_function Torus: triangulated by the marching method: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_triangulation

A sphere is simply connected because every loop can be contracted (on the surface) to a point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simply_connected_space

The torus is not simply-connected: http://inperc.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:Torus.JPG

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