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Mat. Sb., 2023 Volume 214, Number 5, Pages 3–17 (Mi sm9716)

Arf invariants of codimension one in a Wall group of the dihedral group

P. M. Akhmet'evab, Yu. V. Muranovc

a Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
b Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia
c University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland

Abstract: An element $x$ is specified in the Wall group $L_3(D_3)$ of the dihedral group of order $8$ with trivial orientation character, such that $x$ is an element of the third type in the sense of Kharshiladze with respect to any system of one-sided submanifolds of codimension $1$ for which the splitting obstruction group along the first submanifold is isomorphic to $LN_1(\mathbb Z/2\oplus \mathbb Z/2\to D_3)$. The element $x$ is not realisable as an obstruction to surgery on a closed $\mathrm{PL}$-manifold. It is also proved that the unique nontrivial element of the group $LN_3(\mathbb Z/2\oplus \mathbb Z/2\to D_3^-)$ can be detected using the Hasse-Witt $Wh_2$-torsion.
Bibliography: 25 titles.

Keywords: Browder-Livesay groups, Wall groups, one-sided submanifolds, codimension-one Arf invariant, splitting obstructions, Hasse-Witt torsion.

MSC: 57R67

Received: 06.01.2022 and 11.11.2022

DOI: 10.4213/sm9716


 English version:
Sbornik: Mathematics, 2023, 214:5, 613–626

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