Free cyclic actions on surfaces and the Borsuk-Ulam theorem

DOI10.1007/S10114-022-2202-3MaRDI QIDQ2096933zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vinicius Casteluber Laass, Daciberg Lima Gonçalves, John Guaschi

Publication date 11 November 2022

Published in Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02065

zbMATH Keywords

surfacesbraid groupsBorsuk-Ulam theoremcyclic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20)

Abstract: Let $M$ and $N$ be topological spaces, let $G$ be a group, and let $aucolonhinspaceGimesMoM$ be a proper free action of $G$. In this paper, we define a Borsuk-Ulam-type property for homotopy classes of maps from $M$ to $N$ with respect to the pair $(G,au)$ that generalises the classical antipodal Borsuk-Ulam theorem of maps from the $n$-sphere $mathbb{S}^n$ to $mathbb{R}^n$. In the cases where $M$ is a finite pathwise-connected CW-complex, $G$ is a finite, non-trivial Abelian group, $au$ is a proper free cellular action, and $N$ is either $mathbb{R}^2$ or a compact surface without boundary different of $mathbb{S}^2$ and $mathbb{RP}^2$, we give an algebraic criterion involving braid groups to decide whether a free homotopy class $$ has the Borsuk-Ulam property. As an application of this criterion, we consider the case where $M$ is a compact surface without boundary equipped with a free action $au$ of the finite cyclic group $mathbb{Z}_n$. In terms of the orientability of the orbit space $M_{a}u$ of $M$ by the action $au$, the value of $n$ modulo $4$ and a certain algebraic condition involving the first homology group of $M_{a}u$, we are able to determine if the single homotopy class of maps from $M$ to $mathbb{R}^2$ possesses the Borsuk-Ulam property with respect to $(mathbb{Z}_n,au)$. Finally, we give some examples of surfaces on which the symmetric group acts, and for these cases, we obtain some partial results regarding the Borsuk-Ulam property for maps whose target is $mathbb{R}^2$.

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