Smooth 4-dimensional Schoenflies problem
OpenSmoothSchoenflies.smooth_schoenflies_dim_fourLet with its standard smooth structure and the closed unit ball in . Let be a smooth -dimensional submanifold diffeomorphic to , given as the image of a smooth embedding (a injective immersion). By the Jordan–Brouwer separation theorem separates into two compact connected -manifolds with common boundary . The conjecture: for every , with the component of containing ,
i.e. is unknotted.
This is the only dimension in which the smooth Schoenflies problem is open; a negative answer would give an exotic smooth embedded in .
Formalization Note 'Diffeomorphic to ' is IsSmoothClosedBallIn 3: the image of the closed unit ball under a map that is injective and has injective differential at every point of the closed ball (boundary included). The conclusion is required for both complementary components.
import Mathlib import Definitions.Def_SmoothSchoenflies_basic open Manifold Metric
namespace SmoothSchoenflies
theorem smooth_schoenflies_dim_four (f : Sph 3 → Sph 4) (hf : IsSmoothEmbeddingSph 3 f)
(x : Sph 4) (hx : x ∉ Set.range f) :
IsSmoothClosedBallIn 3 (closure (connectedComponentIn (Set.range f)ᶜ x)) := by sorry
end SmoothSchoenflies
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