Linking forms and stabilization of diffeomorphism groups of manifolds of dimension 4n+1

Abstract

Let $n\ge 2$. We prove a homological stability theorem for the diffeomorphism groups of $(4n+1)$-dimensional manifolds, with respect to forming the connected sum with $(2n-1)$-connected, $(4n+1)$-dimensional manifolds that are stably parallelizable. Our techniques involve the study of the action of the diffeomorphism group of a manifold $M$, on the linking form associated to the homology groups of $M$. In particular, we construct a geometric model for the linking form using the intersections of embedded and immersed $\mathbb{Z}/k$-manifolds. In addition to our main homological stability theorem, we prove several disjunction results for the embeddings and immersions of $\mathbb{Z}/k$-manifolds that could be of independent interest.

56 pages. v4 accepted for publication in Journal of Topology

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