Nielsen numbers of selfmaps of Sol 3-manifolds (Q694667)

The authors study the Nielsen number of a self homeomorphism of Sol 3-manifolds without using orbifolds but using just the theory of fibre spaces, covering maps and group presentations. They compute the Nielsen number of arbitrary maps of Sol 3-manifolds. They give a description of sapphire spaces with Sol-geometry. They determine the Nielsen numbers for homeomorphisms and self maps of torus bundles over \(S^1\) with hyperbolic glueing map. The authors discuss the Reidemeister numbers of self homeomorphisms and the \(R_\infty\) property for the fundamental group of a Sol 3-manifold. Let \(f\colon M\to M\) be a map and \(\varphi \colon \pi_1(M)\to \pi_1(M)\) be the induced homomorphism. The Reidemeister number \(R(f)\) of \(f\) is the Reidemeister number \(R(\varphi)\) of \(\varphi\), i.e., the number of \(\varphi\)-twisted conjugacy classes in \(\pi_1(M)\). A group \(G\) is said to have property \(R_\infty\) if for all automorphisms \(\varphi \in\) of \(G\), \(R(\varphi)=\infty\). The authors describe the Reidemeister number of self homeomorphisms of a Sol 3-manifold.