Characteristic Classes and Distortion of Diffeomorphisms (Q4032149)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 158469
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 158469 |
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23 May 1993
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map between manifolds of bounded geometry
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nonamenable fundamental group
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bounded distortion
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characteristic classes
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diffeomorphisms of universal covers
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rational Pontryagin class
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Characteristic Classes and Distortion of Diffeomorphisms (English)
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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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