Symplectically aspherical manifolds

Authors Raúl Ibañez, Jarek Kȩdra, Yuli Rudyak, Aleksy Tralle

Publication date 15 March 2001

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05)

Abstract: The main subjects of the paper is studying the fundamental groups of closed symplectically aspherical manifolds. Motivated by some results of Gompf, we introduce two classes of fundamental groups

p i_{1} (M)

of symplectically aspherical manifolds

M

with

p i_{2} (M) = 0

and

p i_{2} (M) e q 0

. Relations between these classes are discussed. We show that several important classes of groups can be realized in both classes, while some of groups can be realized in the first class but not in the second one. Also, we notice that there are some interesting dimensional phenomena in the realization problem. The above results are framed by a general research of symplectically aspherical manifolds. For example, we find some conditions which imply that the Gompf sum of symplectically aspherical manifolds is symplectically aspherical, or that a total space of a bundle is symplectically aspherical, etc.

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