Quotient manifolds of flows

DOI10.1142/S0218216517400053zbMATH Open1408.37037arXiv1501.00169OpenAlexW2963511449MaRDI QIDQ2969699FDOQ2969699

Authors: Robert E. Gompf 

Publication date: 23 March 2017

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper investigates which smooth manifolds arise as quotients (orbit spaces) of flows of vector fields. Such quotient maps were already known to be surjective on fundamental groups, but this paper shows that every epimorphism of countably presented groups is induced by the quotient map of some flow, and that higher homology can also be controlled. Manifolds of fixed dimension arising as quotients of flows on Euclidean space realize all even (and some odd) intersection pairings, and all homotopy spheres of dimension at least 2 arise in this manner. Most Euclidean spaces of dimensions 5 and higher have families of topologically equivalent but smoothly inequivalent flows with quotient homeomorphic to a manifold with flexibly chosen homology. For m at least 2r>2, there is a topological flow on (R^{2r+1}-(8 points))xR^m that is unsmoothable, although smoothable near each orbit, with quotient an unsmoothable topological manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00169

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zbMATH Keywords

global dynamicsorbit spacestopologically equivalent flowstrivial dynamicsunsmoothable flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving smooth mappings and diffeomorphisms (37C05) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Topological and differentiable equivalence, conjugacy, moduli, classification of dynamical systems (37C15) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

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