The Hilbert-Smith conjecture for three-manifolds

DOI10.1090/S0894-0347-2013-00766-3MaRDI QIDQ4924070zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors John Pardon

Publication date 30 May 2013

Published in Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2324

zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert-Smith Conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Finite transformation groups (57S17) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Transformation groups and semigroups (topological aspects) (54H15) Finite groups of transformations in algebraic topology (including Smith theory) (55M35) Compact groups of homeomorphisms (57S10)

Abstract: We show that every locally compact group which acts faithfully on a connected three-manifold is a Lie group. By known reductions, it suffices to show that there is no faithful action of $mathbb{Z}_p$ (the $p$-adic integers) on a connected three-manifold. If $mathbb{Z}_p$ acts faithfully on $M^3$, we find an interesting $mathbb{Z}_p$-invariant open set $UsubseteqM$ with $H_2(U)=mathbbZ$ and analyze the incompressible surfaces in $U$ representing a generator of $H_2(U)$. It turns out that there must be one such incompressible surface, say $F$, whose isotopy class is fixed by $mathbb{Z}_p$. An analysis of the resulting homomorphism $mathbb{Z}_{p}ooperatornameMCG(F)$ gives the desired contradiction. The approach is local on $M$.

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