Non-singular graph-manifolds of dimension 4

DOI10.2140/AGT.2005.5.1051MaRDI QIDQ2571376zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 1 November 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411335, https://eudml.org/doc/125908, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/AGTVol5/agt-5-43.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

\(\pi_1\)-injective submanifold graph-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55)

Abstract: A compact 4-dimensional manifold is a non-singular graph-manifold if it can be obtained by the glueing T^2-bundles over compact surfaces (with boundary) of negative Euler characteristics. If none of glueing diffeomorphisms respect the bundle structures, the graph-structure is called reduced. We prove that any homotopy equivalence of closed oriented 4-manifolds with reduced nonsingular graph-structures is homotopic to a diffeomorphism preserving the structures.

Review text

As it is well known, \textit{F. Waldhausen}'s graph manifolds are orientable 3-manifolds which can be obtained by gluing Seifert manifolds -- called \textit{blocks} -- along homeomorphisms of their boundary tori [see Invent. Math. 3, 308--333; 4, 87--117 (1967; Zbl 0168.44503)]. The present paper is devoted to the introduction and study of a class of smooth four 4-manifolds generalizing three-dimensional graph-manifolds and having fundamental group of exponential growth. A compact 4-dimensional manifold is a non singular graph manifold if it can be obtained by gluing via boundary diffeomorphisms \(T^2\)-bundles over compact surfaces (possibly with boundary) of negative Euler characteristic. A graph manifold structure is said to be reduced if none of the glueing maps is isotopic to a fiber-preserving map of \(T^2\)-bundles. The main result of the present paper states that any homotopy equivalence between non-singular graph-manifolds with reduced graph-structures is homotopic to a diffeomorphism preserving the structures.

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