Residual properties of graph manifold groups

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2011.04.002MaRDI QIDQ549140zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Aschenbrenner, Stefan Friedl

Publication date 7 July 2011

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3618

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifold groupsgraph manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: Let $fcolonMoN$ be a continuous map between closed irreducible graph manifolds with infinite fundamental group. Perron and Shalen showed that if $f$ induces a homology equivalence on all finite covers, then $f$ is in fact homotopic to a homeomorphism. Their proof used the statement that every graph manifold is finitely covered by a $3$-manifold whose fundamental group is residually $p$ for every prime $p$. We will show that this statement regarding graph manifold groups is not true in general, but we will show how to modify the argument of Perron and Shalen to recover their main result. As a by-product we will determine all semidirect products $$ which are residually $p$ for every prime $p$.

Review text

In this paper a group \(G\) is called a \(p\)-group (\(p\) is prime) if it is finite of order a power of \(p\) and called residually \(p\) if for any non-trivial \(g\in G\), there exists a morphism \(\alpha: G\rightarrow P\) to a \(p\)-group \(P\) such that \(\alpha(g)\) is non-trivial. \(G\) is also called virtually residually \(p\), if there exists a finite-index subgroup of \(G\) which is residually \(p\). The following theorem was proved by \textit{B. Perron} and \textit{P. Shalen} in [Topology Appl. 99, No.~1, 1--39 (1999; Zbl 0935.57023)] under the assumption that all graph manifold groups have a finite-index subgroup which is residually \(p\) for every \(p\): Theorem 1.4: Let \(M\) and \(N\) be closed irreducible orientible graph manifolds with infinite fundamental groups. Then every covering homology equivalence \(M\rightarrow N\) is homotopic to a homemorphism. In this paper the authors show how to modify the original proof of Theorem 1.4 to accommodate to the weaker information using virtual properties of the fundamental group of a graph manifold. They conclude the paper with the proof of the following theorem. Theorem 1.6: Let \(M\) and \(N\) be closed and irreducible 3-manifolds with infinite fundamental groups. Assume that the fundamental group \(\pi_1(M)\) is residually finite solvable. Then every covering homology equivalence \(M\rightarrow N\) is homotopic to a homeomorphism.

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