On Wh3 of a Bieberbach group

1984 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Nicas
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Group ◽  
Universal Covering ◽  
Closed Manifold ◽  
Covering Space ◽  
Whitehead Group ◽  
Bieberbach Group ◽  
Universal Covering Space ◽  
Aspherical Manifold

A closed aspherical manifold is a closed manifold whose universal covering space is contractible. There is the following conjecture concerning the algebraic K-theory of such manifolds:Conjecture. Let Γ be the fundamental group of a closed aspherical manifold. Then Whi(Γ) = 0 for i ≥ 0 where Whi(Γ) is the i-th higher Whitehead group of Γ.

An infinite family of non-Haken hyperbolic 3-manifolds with vanishing Whitehead groups

1986 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Nicas
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Group ◽  
Infinite Family ◽  
Universal Covering ◽  
Covering Space ◽  
Homotopy Equivalence ◽  
Universal Covering Space ◽  
Aspherical Manifold ◽  
Aspherical Manifolds ◽  
Whitehead Groups

A manifold M is said to be aspherical if its universal covering space is contractible. Farrell and Hsiang have conjectured [3]:Conjecture A. (Topological rigidity of aspherical manifolds.) Any homotopy equivalence f: N → M between closed aspherical manifolds is homotopic to a homeomorphism,and its analogue in algebraic K-theory:Conjecture B. The Whitehead groups Whj(π1M)(j ≥ 0) of the fundamental group of a closed aspherical manifold M vanish.

Rigidities of asymptotically Euclidean manifolds

1999 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seong-Hun Paeng
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Euclidean Space ◽  
Fundamental Group ◽  
Compact Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Universal Covering ◽  
Covering Space ◽  
Universal Covering Space

Let M be an n-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold. We study the fundamental group of M when the universal covering space of M, M is close to some Euclidean space ℝs asymptotically.

scholarly journals On 4-manifolds with universal covering space a compact geometric manifold

1993 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-148
Author(s):  
Jonathan A. Hillman
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Group ◽  
Euler Characteristic ◽  
Homotopy Type ◽  
Universal Covering ◽  
Total Space ◽  
Covering Space ◽  
Compact Type ◽  
Universal Covering Space

AbstractThere are 11 closed 4-manifolds which admit geometries of compact type (S4, CP2 or S2 × S2) and two other closely related bundle spaces (S2 × S2 and the total space of the nontrivial RP2-bundle over S2). We show that the homotopy type of such a manifold is determined up to an ambiguity of order at most 4 by its quadratic 2-type, and this in turn is (in most cases) determined by the Euler characteristic, fundamental group and Stiefel-Whitney classes. In (at least) seven of the 13 cases, a PL 4-manifold with the same invariants as a geometric manifold or bundle space must be homeomorphic to it.

A quadratic parabolic group

1975 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Riley
Keyword(s):  
Normal Form ◽  
Half Space ◽  
Transformation Group ◽  
Universal Covering ◽  
Covering Space ◽  
Fundamental Domains ◽  
Universal Covering Space ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Figure Eight Knot

When k is a 2-bridge knot with group πK, there are parabolic representations (p-reps) θ: πK → PSL(): = PSL(2, ). The most obvious problem that this suggests is the determination of a presentation for an image group πKθ. We shall settle the easiest outstanding case in section 2 below, viz. k the figure-eight knot 41, which has the 2-bridge normal form (5, 3). We shall prove that the (two equivalent) p-reps θ for this knot are isomorphisms of πK on πKθ. Furthermore, the universal covering space of S3\k can be realized as Poincaré's upper half space 3, and πKθ is a group of hyperbolic isometries of 3 which is also the deck transformation group of the covering 3 → S3\k. The group πKθ is a subgroup of two closely related groups that we study in section 3. We shall give fundamental domains, presentations, and other information for all these groups.

scholarly journals A presentation for a group of automorphisms of a simplicial complex

1988 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Simplicial Complex ◽  
Elementary Proof ◽  
Universal Covering ◽  
Covering Space ◽  
Covering Spaces ◽  
Group Of Automorphisms ◽  
Generators And Relations ◽  
Universal Covering Space ◽  
Simply Connected ◽  
Special Case

The Bass–Serre theorem supplies generators and relations for a group of automorphisms of a tree. Recently K. S. Brown [2] has extended the result to produce a presentation for a group of automorphisms of a simply connected complex, the extra ingredient being relations which come from the 2-cells of the complex. Suppose G is the group, K the complex and L the 1-skeleton of K. Then an extension of π1(L) by G acts on the universal covering space of L (which is of course a tree) and Brown's technique is to apply the work of Bass and Serre to this action. Our aim is to give a direct elementary proof of Brown's theorem which makes no use of covering spaces, deals with the Bass–Serre theorem as a special case and clarifies the roles played by the various generators and relations.

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