Gyration Stability for Products

Abstract

A gyration is an operation on Poincaré Duality complexes that arises from a certain surgery on the product of a given complex $N$ and a sphere, parametrised by a chosen twisting. Of particular recent interest is the notion of gyration stability; that is, $N$ is gyration stable when all of its gyrations have the same homotopy type, regardless of the twisting used. We prove that a product $N\times M$ of two Poincaré Duality complexes is gyration stable when one of the product terms is itself gyration stable, and provide some examples of interest.

8 pages, comments welcome