Free actions on surfaces that do not extend to arbitrary actions on 3-manifolds

DOI10.5802/CRMATH.277zbMATH Open1486.57032arXiv2107.06982OpenAlexW3179659793MaRDI QIDQ2116736FDOQ2116736

Eric Samperton

Publication date: 18 March 2022

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide the first known example of a finite group action on an oriented surface $T$ that is free, orientation-preserving, and does not extend to an arbitrary (in particular, possibly non-free) orientation-preserving action on any compact oriented 3-manifold $N$ with boundary $partialN=T$. This implies a negative solution to a conjecture of Dom'inguez and Segovia, as well as Uribe's evenness conjecture for equivariant unitary bordism groups. We more generally provide sufficient conditions that imply infinitely many such group actions on surfaces exist. Intriguingly, any group with such a non-extending action is also a counterexample to the Noether problem over the complex numbers $mathbbC$. In forthcoming work with Segovia we give a complete homological characterization of those finite groups admitting such a non-extending action, as well as more examples and non-examples. We do not address here the analogous question for non-orientation-preserving actions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06982

zbMATH Keywords

extending a finite group action on a surface to a 3-manifoldextending free actions on a surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Cited In (4)

• Extending finite free actions of surfaces
• Oriented and unitary equivariant bordism of surfaces
• On the bordism group for group actions on the torus
• Extending finite group actions from surfaces to handlebodies

Uses Software

• GAP

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