The complex of end reductions of a contractible open 3-manifold: constructing 1-dimensional examples

MaRDI QIDQ2493418zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 12 June 2006

Published in Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405380

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldcovering spaceend reduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

Abstract: Given an irreducible contractible open 3-manifold W which is not homeomorphic to R^3, there is an associated simplicial complex S(W), the complex of end reductions of W. Whenever W covers a 3-manifold M one has that the fundamental group of M is isomorphic to a subgroup of the group Aut(S(W)) of simplicial automorphisms of W. In this paper we give a new method for constructing examples W with S(W) isomorphic to a triangulation of R. It follows that any 3-manifold M covered by W must have infinite cyclic fundamental group. We also give a complete isotopy classification of the end reductions of W.

Review text

Given an irreducible, contractible, open 3-manifold \(W\) which is not homeomorphic to \(\mathbb R^3\), there is an associated simplicial complex \(S(W)\), the complex of end reductions of \(W\). Whenever \(W\) covers a 3-manifold \(M\) one has that \(\pi_1(M)\) is isomorphic to a subgroup of the group \(\Aut(S(W))\) of simplicial automorphisms of \(S(W)\). In the present paper the author presents a new method for constructing examples \(W\) with \(S(W)\) isomorphic to a triangulation of \(\mathbb R\). It follows that any 3-manifold \(M\) covered by \(W\) must have \(\pi_1(M)\) infinite cyclic. The author also gives a complete isotopy classification of the end reductions of these \(W\). The method of the paper seems to be used to construct \(\mathbb R^2\)-irreducible Whitehead manifolds which cover 3-manifolds with non-Abelian free fundamental group and can cover only 3-manifolds with free fundamental group.

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