Nielsen Realization for sphere twists on 3-manifolds
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Publication:6396160
arXiv2204.04820MaRDI QIDQ6396160FDOQ6396160
Publication date: 10 April 2022
Abstract: For a 3-manifold M, the twist group Twist(M) is the subgroup of the mapping class group Mod(M) generated by twists about embedded 2-spheres. We study the Nielsen realization problem for subgroups of Twist(M). We prove that a nontrivial subgroup G<Twist(M) is realized by diffeomorphisms if and only if G is cyclic and M is a connected sum of lens spaces. We also apply our methods to the Burnside problem for 3-manifolds and show that Diff(M) does not contain an infinite torsion group when M is reducible and not a connected sum of lens spaces.
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