Contractible open 3-manifolds with free covering translation groups

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(98)00047-9MaRDI QIDQ1304850zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors V. Pereyra

Publication date 14 March 2000

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9612214

zbMATH Keywords

endsWhitehead manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: This paper concerns the class of contractible open 3-manifolds which are ``locally finite strong end sums of eventually end-irreducible Whitehead manifolds. It is shown that whenever a 3-manifold in this class is a covering space of another 3-manifold the group of covering translations must be a free group. It follows that such a 3-manifold cannot cover a closed 3-manifold. For each countable free group a specific uncountable family of irreducible open 3-manifolds is constructed whose fundamental groups are isomorphic to the given group and whose universal covering spaces are in this class and are pairwise non-homeomorphic.

Review text

A Whitehead manifold is an irreducible, contractible, open 3-manifold not homeomorphic to \(E^3\). The author proves that a strong end sum, \(W\), of certain kinds of Whitehead manifolds along a locally finite tree, \(\Gamma\), with the property that \(W\) covers a 3-manifold \(M\), enjoys the following properties: (1) \(\pi_1(M)\) is free, (2) \(M\) is not closed, (3) if \(\Gamma\) has countably many ends, then \(\pi_1(M)\) is cyclic, (4) if \(\pi_1(M)\) has \(>1\) and \(<\infty\) ends then \(\pi_1(M)=1\), thus \(M=W\). These properties follow from the existence of a simplicial action of \(\pi_1(M)\) on \(\Gamma\) which is free on the vertices.

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(7)

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