Fundamental classes not representable by products

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDN089MaRDI QIDQ3630818zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Clara Löh, D. Kotschick

Publication date 4 June 2009

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4540

zbMATH Keywords

fibrationfundamental grouphomology classhyperbolic grouprationally essential manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65)

Abstract: We prove that rationally essential manifolds with suitably large fundamental groups do not admit any maps of non-zero degree from products of closed manifolds of positive dimension. Particular examples include all manifolds of non-positive sectional curvature of rank one and all irreducible locally symmetric spaces of non-compact type. For closed manifolds from certain classes, say non-positively curved ones, or certain surface bundles over surfaces, we show that they do admit maps of non-zero degree from non-trivial products if and only if they are virtually diffeomorphic to products.

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