Fundamental groups of 3-folds and operator algebras

DOI10.5802/AFST.1159zbMATH Open1213.57026arXivmath/0509449OpenAlexW3121187198MaRDI QIDQ541749FDOQ541749

Pierre de la Harpe, Jean-Philippe Préaux

Publication date: 7 June 2011

Published in: Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Série VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide a geometric characterization of manifolds of dimension 3 with fundamental groups of which all conjugacy classes except 1 are infinite, namely of which the von Neumann algebras are factors of type $I{I}_1$: they are essentially the 3-manifolds with infinite fundamental groups on which there does not exist any Seifert fibration. Otherwise said and more precisely, let $M$ be a compact connected 3-manifold and let $Gamma$ be its fundamental group, supposed to be infinite and with at least one finite conjugacy class besides 1. If $M$ is orientable, then $Gamma$ is the fundamental group of a Seifert manifold; if $M$ is not orientable, then $Gamma$ is the fundamental group of a Seifert manifold modulo $BbbP$ in the sense of Heil and Whitten cite{HeWh--94}. We make heavy use of results on 3-manifolds, as well classical results (as can be found in the books of Hempel, Jaco, and Shalen), as more recent ones (solution of the Seifert fibred space conjecture).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509449

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10)

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