Rigidity for aspherical manifolds with _1 GL_m(R)

DOI10.4310/AJM.1998.V2.N2.A1MaRDI QIDQ1275239zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Thomas Farrell, Lowell Jones

Publication date 16 May 1999

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/ajm.1998.v2.n2.a1

zbMATH Keywords

\(A\)-regular Riemannian manifoldsabsolute topological rigidityaffine flat manifoldaspherical manifoldsBorel's conjecturenon-positively curved Riemannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65)

Review text

Let \( M \) be a compact manifold with possibly non-empty boundary \( \partial M\). \(M \) is called topologically rigid if any homotopy equivalence \( h: (N, \partial N) \rightarrow (M, \partial M) \), where \( N \) is another compact manifold and the restriction \( h_{| \partial N} \) is a homeomorphism, satisfies the following condition: there exists a homotopy \( h_t :(N, \partial N) \rightarrow (M, \partial M) \) from \( h \) to a homeomorphism such that \( h_{t | \partial N} = h_{| \partial N}\) If one drops the conditions that \( h_{| \partial N} \) is a homeomorphism and \( h_{t | \partial N} = h_{| \partial N}, \) the resulting concept is called absolute topological rigidity. Recall that a Riemannian manifold is \(A\)-regular if for some non-negative sequence \( A=(A_k) \) we have \( | \nabla^k R | \leq A_k, \) where the indices \( k \) vary over the natural numbers and \( \nabla^k R \) is the \( k \)-th covariant derivative of the curvature tensor field [see \textit{J. Cheeger, K. Fukaya} and \textit{M. Gromov}, J. Am. Math. Soc. 5, No. 2, 327-372 (1992; Zbl 0758.53022)]. The authors prove the following result: if \( M \) is an aspherical manifold of dimension \( \not= 3, 4 \) and \( \pi_1 (M) \) is isomorphic to the fundamental group of an A-regular complete non-positively curved Riemannian manifold, then \( M \) is topologically rigid. Also, the most general version of this result is formulated. In particular, they show that all compact complete affine flat manifolds of dimension \( \not= 3, 4 \) are topologically rigid. Note that the authors have previously verified topological rigidity for all closed non-positively curved Riemannian manifolds of dimension \( \not= 3, 4 \) [ibid. 2, No. 2, 257-369 (1989; Zbl 0696.57018); Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 54, Part 3, 229-274 (1993; Zbl 0796.53043)] and for every closed aspherical manifold of dimension \( \not= 3 \) whose fundamental group is virtually poly-\( \mathbb{Z} \) [Invent. Math. 91, No. 3, 559-586 (1988; Zbl 0657.57015)]. Another application to double coset spaces is also derived. Uniqueness of manifold compactifications of a manifold is investigated as well as some absolute rigidity results are established. A special case of a well-known conjecture concerning the class of fundamental groups of closed aspherical manifolds [\textit{P. E. Conner} and \textit{F. Raymond}, Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 83, 36-85 (1977; Zbl 0341.57003)] is verified. This partial verification is applied in order to obtain results on the Nielsen type problem [Conner and Raymond, loc. cit.]. Some open problems are pointed out.

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