Diffeomorphisms of Elliptic 3-Manifolds

2012
ISBN: 978-3-642-31563-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 2055, 155 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 265 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Mathematics

This work concerns the diffeomorphism groups of 3-manifolds, in particular of elliptic 3-manifolds. These are the closed 3-manifolds that admit a Riemannian metric of constant positive curvature, now known to be exactly the closed 3-manifolds that have a finite fundamental group. The (Generalized) Smale Conjecture asserts that for any elliptic 3-manifold M, the inclusion from the isometry group of M to its diffeomorphism group is a homotopy equivalence. The original Smale Conjecture, for the 3-sphere, was proven by J. Cerf and A. Hatcher, and N. Ivanov proved the generalized conjecture for many of the elliptic 3-manifolds that contain a geometrically incompressible Klein bottle.

The main results establish the Smale Conjecture for all elliptic 3-manifolds containing geometrically incompressible Klein bottles, and for all lens spaces L(m,q) with m at least 3. Additional results imply that for a Haken Seifert-fibered 3 manifold V, the space of Seifert fiberings has contractible components, and apart from a small list of known exceptions, is contractible. Considerable foundational and background

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hong, Sungbok

Rubinstein, J. Hyam

Kalliongis, John

McCullough, Darryl

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Topologie Analytische Topologie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie Differentialgeometrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Elliptic 3-manifolds and the Smale Conjecture.- 2 Diffeomorphisms and Embeddings of Manifolds.- 3 The Method of Cerf and Palais.- 4 Elliptic 3-manifolds Containing One-sided Klein Bottles.- 5 Lens Spaces