Brieskorn manifolds, generalized Sieradski groups, and coverings of Lens spaces

DOI10.1134/S0081543819020196MaRDI QIDQ2317375zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrei Vesnin, T. A. Kozlovskaya

Publication date 9 August 2019

Published in Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03249

3-manifold branched covering Brieskorn manifold cyclically presented group lens space Sieradski group

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

Abstract: The Brieskorn manifolds

B (p, q, r)

are the

r

-fold cyclic coverings of the 3-sphere

S^{3}

branched over the torus knot

T (p, q)

. The generalised Sieradski groups

S (m, p, q)

are groups with

m

-cyclic pre-sen-tation

G_{m} (w)

, where defining word

w

has a special form, depending of

p

and

q

. In particular,

S (m, 3, 2) = G_{m} (w)

is the group with

m

generators

x_{1}, l d o t s, x_{m}

and

m

defining relations

w (x_{i}, x_{i + 1}, x_{i + 2}) = 1

, where

w (x_{i}, x_{i + 1}, x_{i + 2}) = x_{i} x_{i + 2} x_{i + 1}^{- 1}

. Presentations of

S (2 n, 3, 2)

in a certain form

G_{n} (w)

were investigated by Howie and Williams. They proved that the

n

-cyclic presentations are geometric, i.e., correspond to the spines of closed orientable 3-manifolds. We establish an analogous result for the groups

S (2 n, 5, 2)

. It is shown that in both cases the manifolds are

n

-fold cyclic branched coverings of lens spaces. To classify some of constructed manifolds we used the Matveev's computer program "Recognizer".

Review text

Generalized Sieradski groups \(S(m,p,q)\) are groups with \(m\)-cyclic presentation \(G_{m}(w),\) where the word \(w\) has a special form depending on \(p\) and \(q.\) In particular, \(S(m,3,2) = G_{m}(w)\) is the group with \(m\) generators \(x_1,x_2,\dots,x_m\) and \(m\) defining relations \(w(x_i,x_{i+1},x_{i+2}) = 1,\) where \(w(x_i,x_{i+1},x_{i+2}) = x_{i}x_{i+2}x_{i+1}^{-1}.\) Cyclic presentations of the groups \(S(2n,3,2)\) in the form \(G_n(w)\) were investigated by \textit{J. Howie} and \textit{G. Williams} [Topology Appl. 215, 24--34 (2017; Zbl 1365.20032)], who showed that \(n\)-cyclic presentations are geometric i.e., correspond to spines of closed \(3\)-manifolds. In the paper under review the authors establish a similar result for the groups \(S(2n,5,2).\) They prove that \[ S(2n,5,2) = G_{n}(x_{i}x_{i+1}x_{i+2}^{2}x_{i+3}x_{i+4}x_{i+3}^{-1}x_{i+2}^{-1}x_{i+1}x_{i+2}x_{i+3}x_{i+2}^{-1}x_{i+1}^{-1}) \] and the above presentation is geometric. Finally it is proved that the above manifolds (which are related with geometric presentations) are branched \(n\)-fold cyclic coverings of the lens spaces \(L(3,1)\) and \(L(5,1)\), respectively.

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