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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 2055)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Mathematics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
Sungbok Hong
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Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, USA
John Kalliongis
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Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
Darryl McCullough
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Department of Mathematics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
J. Hyam Rubinstein
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Diffeomorphisms of Elliptic 3-Manifolds
Authors: Sungbok Hong, John Kalliongis, Darryl McCullough, J. Hyam Rubinstein
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31564-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-31563-3Published: 28 August 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-31564-0Published: 29 August 2012
Series ISSN: 0075-8434
Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 155
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations