Characteristic Classes and Distortion of Diffeomorphisms

DOI10.2307/2152714MaRDI QIDQ4032149zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oliver Attie, Shmuel Weinberger, Jonathan L. Block

Publication date 23 May 1993

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2152714

zbMATH Keywords

bounded distortioncharacteristic classesdiffeomorphisms of universal coversmap between manifolds of bounded geometrynonamenable fundamental grouprational Pontryagin class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative topology (46L85) Noncommutative differential geometry (46L87) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

Review text

A map \(f:M\to N\) between manifolds of bounded geometry is said to have bounded distortion if there is an upper bound on the norm of the derivative \(Df\). The authors prove the following theorem which describes when characteristic classes of a compact manifold obstruct the existence of bounded distortion diffeomorphisms of universal covers. Theorem: There are compact manifolds \(A\) and \(B\) with fundamental group \(\Gamma\) and a map \(f:A\to B\) with \(f^*\bigl(p(B)\bigr)\neq p(A)\) for some rational Pontryagin class \(p\), whose universal cover is b.d. homotopic to a b.d. diffeomorphism if and only if \(\Gamma\) is nonamenable.

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