Topological rigidity for non-aspherical manifolds

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2009.V5.N3.A1zbMATH Open1196.57018arXivmath/0509238OpenAlexW2116580866MaRDI QIDQ2390738FDOQ2390738

Matthias Kreck, Wolfgang Lück

Publication date: 3 August 2009

Published in: Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Borel Conjecture predicts that closed aspherical manifolds are topological rigid. We want to investigate when a non-aspherical oriented connected closed manifold M is topological rigid in the following sense. If f: N --> M is an orientation preserving homotopy equivalence with a closed oriented manifold as target, then there is an orientation preserving homeomorphism h: N --> M such that h and f induce up to conjugation the same maps on the fundamental groups. We call such manifolds Borel manifolds. We give partial answers to this questions for S^k x S^d, for sphere bundles over aspherical closed manifolds of dimension less or equal to 3 and for 3-manifolds with torsionfree fundamental groups. We show that this rigidity is inherited under connected sums in dimensions greater or equal to 5. We also classify manifolds of dimension 5 or 6 whose fundamental group is the one of a surface and whose second homotopy group is trivial.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509238

zbMATH Keywords

surgeryaspherical manifoldBorel Conjectureclassification of low dimensional topological manifoldsIsomorphism Conjecturestoplogical rigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Topological manifolds (57N99)

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