Thurston’s fragmentation and c-principles

Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Embeddings and immersions in PL-topology (57Q35) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Classifying spaces for foliations; Gelfand-Fuks cohomology (57R32) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Isotopy in differential topology (57R52)

Abstract: In this paper, we generalize the original idea of Thurston for the so called Mather-Thurston's theorem for foliated bundles to prove new variants of this theorem for PL homeomorphisms, contactormorphisms. These versions answer questions posed by Gelfand -Fuks and Greenberg on PL foliations and Rybicki on contactomorphisms. The interesting point about the original Thurston's technique compared to the better known Segal-McDuff's proof of the Mather-Thurston theorem is that it gives a compactly supported c-principle theorem without knowing the relevant local statement on open balls. In the appendix, we show that Thurston's fragmentation implies the non-abelian Poincare duality theorem and its generalization using blob complexes.

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