Monoids of linking pairings and orthogonal summands

DOI10.2140/AGT.2005.5.419zbMATH Open1080.57012arXivmath/0503265OpenAlexW1978356868MaRDI QIDQ2571352FDOQ2571352

Authors: Florian Deloup 

Publication date: 1 November 2005

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A linking pairing is a symetric bilinear pairing lambda: GxG --> Q/Z on a finite abelian group. The set of isomorphism classes of linking pairings is a non-cancellative monoid E under orthogonal sum, which is infinitely generated and infinitely related. We propose a new presentation of E that enables one to detect whether a linking pairing has a given orthogonal summand. The same method extends to the monoid Q of quadratic forms on finite abelian groups. We obtain a combinatorial classification of Q (that was previously known for groups of period 4). As applications, we describe explicitly 3-manifolds having a degree one map onto prescribed (or proscribed) lens spaces. Most of the results extend to 3-manifolds endowed with a parallelization or a spin structure. In particular, the Reidemeister--Turaev function detects the existence of a spin preserving degree one map between a rational homology 3-sphere and a lens space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503265

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zbMATH Keywords

quadratic form3-manifoldlinking pairingorthogonal summand

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings (11E81) Forms and linear algebraic groups (11E99)

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