Combinatorial constructions of three-dimensional small covers

DOI10.2140/PJM.2012.256.177MaRDI QIDQ433542zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yasuzo Nishimura

Publication date 5 July 2012

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1744, http://msp.berkeley.edu/pjm/2012/256-1/p10.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

3-polytopeconnected sumequivariant surgerysmall cover

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Finite transformation groups (57S17)

Abstract: A small cover was introduced by Davis and Januszkiewicz as an $n$-dimensional closed manifold with a locally standard $Z_2{)}^n$-action such that its orbit space is a simple convex polytope. There exist a one-to-one correspondence between small covers and $(Z_2{)}^n$-colored polytopes. In this paper we study a construction of 3-dimensional small covers by using two operations called a connected sum and a surgery. These operations correspondent to combinatorial operations on $(Z_2{)}^3$-colored simple convex polytopes. We shall show that each 3-dimensional small cover can be constructed from $T^3$, $R{P}^3$ and $S^{1}imesR{P}^2$ with two different $(Z_2{)}^3$-actions by using these operations. This result is a generalization and an improvement of L"{u}-Yu's result.

Review text

The notion of small covers was introduced by \textit{M. W. Davis} and \textit{T. Januszkiewicz} [Duke Math. J. 62, No. 2, 417--451 (1991; Zbl 0733.52006)]. An \(n\)-dimensional small cover is an \(n\)-dimensional closed smooth manifold with a locally standard \(({\mathbb Z}_2)^n\)-action whose orbit space is a simple convex polytope, and it is a topological real version of a nonsingular compact toric variety. The paper under review studies the topological type of 3-dimensional small covers.NEWLINENEWLINEThe main result of the paper under review is that each 3-dimensional small cover can be constructed from \(T^3\), \({\mathbb R}P^3\) and \(S^1\times {\mathbb R}P^2\) with two different \(({\mathbb Z}_2)^3\)-actions by using only two operations on small covers. This result is a generalization of the results in [\textit{I. V. Izmest'ev}, Math. Notes 69, No. 3, 340--346 (2001); translation from Mat. Zametki 69, No. 3, 375--382 (2001; Zbl 0991.57016)] and [\textit{Y. Nishimura}, ``Equivariant surgeries of small covers, RIMS Kokyuroku 1393, 44--47 (2004)], and in addition, it is also an improvement of the results in [\textit{S. Kuroki}, Chin. Ann. Math., Ser. B 31, No. 3, 393--410 (2010; Zbl 1217.57010)] and [\textit{Z. Lü} and \textit{L. Yu}, Forum Math. 23, No. 2, 245--284 (2011; Zbl 1222.52015)].

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