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

DOI10.5802/CRMATH.277MaRDI QIDQ2116736zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eric Samperton

Publication date 18 March 2022

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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)

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.

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