Non-fiber preserving actions on prism manifolds (Q407373)

A prism manifold \(M(b,d)\) is obtained by glueing a solid torus and a twisted \([0,1]\)-bundle over the Klein bottle along their boundaries in a manner prescribed by the relatively prime integers \(b,d\). Any Klein bottle sitting in \(M(b,d)\) in a similar way is called a Heegard Klein bottle. It is shown that prism manifolds admit an elliptic structure, so that it makes sense to speak about isometries of prism manifolds. Moreover, every prism manifold has exacty two fiberings, and every finite group of isometries of a prism manifold other than \(M(1,2)\) is fiber preserving for at least one of the fiberings. It follows from an earlier classification result of the authors [Kobe J. Math. 28, No. 1--2, 69--89 (2011; Zbl 1253.57011)] that a non-fiber preserving action cannot leave any Heegard Klein bottle invariant. Next the authors construct nine types of finite isometry actions on \(M(1,2)\) that are not fiber preserving, and they show that any action sharing these properties is conjugate to one of the nine examples. The groups are \(\mathbb Z_3 \times T\), \(T\), \(O\), \(S_3 \times O\), \(\mathbb Z_3 \times_s O\), \(S_3 \times T\), \(\mathbb Z_3 \times O\), \(\mathbb Z_3 \times I\), \(S_3 \times I\), where \(T,O,I\) are the symmetry groups of the platonic solids, \(S_3\) is the symmetric group of order 6 and \(\times_s\) denotes a proper semidirect product.