Extending finite group actions from surfaces to handlebodies

We show that every action of a finite dihedral group on a closed orientable surface extends to a 3-dimensional handlebody , with . In the case of a finite abelian group , we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a -action on a surface to extend to a compact -manifold, or, equivalently in this case, to a 3-dimensional handlebody; in particular all (fixed-point) free actions of finite abelian groups extend to handlebodies. This is no longer true for free actions of arbitrary finite groups: we give a procedure which allows us to construct free actions of finite groups on surfaces which do not extend to a handlebody. We also show that the unique Hurwitz action of order of on a surface of genus does not extend to any compact 3-manifold with , thus resolving the only case of Hurwitz actions of type of low order which remained open in an earlier paper (Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 117 (1995), 137--151).

     

Imbeddings of free actions on handlebodies

Fix a free, orientation-preserving action of a finite group on a -dimensional handlebody . Whenever acts freely preserving orientation on a connected -manifold , there is a -equivariant imbedding of into . There are choices of closed and Seifert-fibered for which the image of is a handlebody of a Heegaard splitting of . Provided that the genus of is at least , there are similar choices with closed and hyperbolic.

     

Stiefel-Whitney surfaces and decompositions of 3-manifolds into handlebodies

Every closed nanorientable 3-manifold M can be obtained as the union of three orientable handlebodies V₁, V₂, V₃ whose interiors are pairwise disjoint. If g_i denotes the genus of V_i, g₁g₂g₃, we say that M has tri-genus (g₁, g₂, g₃), if in terms of lexicographical ordering, the triple (g₁, g₂, g₃) is minimal among all such decompositions of M into orientable handlebodies. We relate the tri-genus of M to the genus of a surface that represents the dual of the first Stiefel-Whitney class of M. This is used to determine g₁ and g₂.     

Orientation-reversing free actions on handlebodies

We examine free orientation-reversing group actions on orientable handlebodies, and free actions on nonorientable handlebodies. A classification theorem is obtained, giving the equivalence classes and weak equivalence classes of free actions in terms of algebraic invariants that involve Nielsen equivalence. This is applied to describe the sets of free actions in various cases, including a complete classification for many (and conjecturally all) cases above the minimum genus. For abelian groups, the free actions are classified for all genera.     

Anti-holomorphic involutions and almost complex structures on four-manifold

Let σ be an anti-holomorphic involution on almost complex manifoldX, the existence of almost complex structure onY=X/σ is discussed. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 19771010).     

Algebraic limits of geometrically finite manifolds are tame

No Abstract. . Received: March 2004 Revision: November 2004 Accepted: June 2005     

Yang-Mills模空间上的有限群作用

设Ｘ是单连通光滑闭４－流形,有限群Ｇ光滑作用于Ｘ,令ｐ：Ｅ→Ｘ是Ｘ上具有光滑Ｇ作用的ＳＵ（２）从且ｐ是一个Ｇ映射．本文研究了丛Ｅ上等模空间Ｍ＾Ｇ和商丛Ｅ’→Ｘ’上的关键空间之间的关系,并讨论了不变模空间的紧致化。     

Incommensurability criteria for Kleinian groups

The purpose of this note is to present a criterion for an infinite collection of distinct hyperbolic 3-manifolds to be commensurably infinite. (Here, a collection of hyperbolic 3-manifolds is commensurably infinite if it contains representatives from infinitely many commensurability classes.) Namely, such a collection is commensurably infinite if there is a uniform upper bound on the volumes of the manifolds in .

There is a related criterion for an infinite collection of distinct finitely generated Kleinian groups with non-empty domain of discontinuity to be commensurably infinite. (Here, a collection of Kleinian groups is commensurably infinite if it is infinite modulo the combined equivalence relations of commensurability and conjugacy in .) Namely, such a collection is commensurably infinite if there is a uniform bound on the areas of the quotient surfaces of the groups in .

     

Infinitely many hyperbolic 3-manifolds which contain no Reebless foliation

We investigate group actions on simply-connected (second countable but not necessarily Hausdorff) 1-manifolds and describe an infinite family of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds whose fundamental groups do not act nontrivially on such 1-manifolds. As a corollary we conclude that these 3-manifolds contain no Reebless foliation. In fact, these arguments extend to actions on oriented -order trees and hence these 3-manifolds contain no transversely oriented essential lamination; in particular, they are non-Haken.

     

两个压缩体融合为一个压缩体的充分必要条件北大核心CSCD

本文给出了两个压缩体沿紧致连通曲面(带边曲面或闭曲面)融合仍是一个压缩体(有非空负边界)的充分必要条件,还给出了两个3维流形沿着边界上的紧致连通带边曲面融合中的融合曲面为边界不可压缩的一个特征描述,同时还证明了压缩体的每个Heegaard分解是标准的.     

棱形六面体的两两面叠合

本文研究了棱形六面体经两两面面叠合后所能得到几何体.利用流形判别和基本群计算的基本方法,获得了在可能叠合到的476种几何体中,有409种不是流形,而在是流形的情形时,其基本群包括1,Z,Z2,Z3,Z5,Z7,Z8以及5种只能用关系表示的群.     

Geometric Structures on Orbifolds and Holonomy Representations

An orbifold is a topological space modeled on quotient spaces of a finite group actions. We can define the universal cover of an orbifold and the fundamental group as the deck transformation group. Let G be a Lie group acting on a space X. We show that the space of isotopy-equivalence classes of (G, X)-structures on a compact orbifold is locally homeomorphic to the space of representations of the orbifold fundamental group of to G following the work of Thurston, Morgan, and Lok. This implies that the deformation space of (G, X)-structures on is locally homeomorphic to the character variety of representations of the orbifold fundamental group to G when restricted to the region of proper conjugation action by G.     

Conjugacy problem in groups of oriented geometrizable 3-manifolds

The aim of this paper is to show that the fundamental group of an oriented 3-manifold which satisfies Thurston's geometrization conjecture has a solvable conjugacy problem. In other words, for any such 3-manifold M, there exists an algorithm which can decide for any couple of elements u,v of π₁(M) whether u and v are in the same conjugacy class of π₁(M) or not. More topologically, the algorithm decides for any two loops in M, whether they are freely homotopic or not.     

Estimating a skein module with characters

We introduce a new technique for estimating the number of generators of the Kauffman bracket skein module of a three manifold; one which requires the construction of linear functionals on a simpler version of the module. Of particular interest is the use of representations of the fundamental group into to generate the functionals.

     

Circle actions on simply connected 5-manifolds

The aim of this paper is to study compact 5-manifolds which admit fixed point free circle actions. The first result implies that the torsion in the second homology and the second Stiefel-Whitney class have to satisfy strong restrictions. We then show that for simply connected 5-manifolds these restrictions are necessary and sufficient.     

Generalized quadrangles admitting PSL(2,q) × PSL(2,q)

In this paper, we classify the generalized quadrangles of order (s,t), s ≠ 1 ≠ t, which admit the natural action of PSL(2,s) × PSL(2,s) on a subGQ of order (s,1). This generalizes a recent result of J. De Kaey and H. Van Maldeghem 3 , by whom the classification was obtained for the case s = t. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Combin Designs.     

关于有限群特征标值的两点注记

通过计算群中的对合数，本文刻画了以下两类有限群：特征标表中有一行至多有两个有理值的有限群；特征标表中有一列至多有两个实数值的有限群．