On the homotopy types of closed 4-manifolds covered by S^ 2^ 2

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(96)00099-5MaRDI QIDQ675233zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jonathan A. Hillman

Publication date 23 September 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-8641(96)00099-5

zbMATH Keywords

4-dimensional geometries4-manifolds\(k\)-invariantsEuler characteristicfundamental groupsphere bundlesStiefel-Whitney classuniversal covering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10)

Review text

In this nice paper, the author studies the problem of characterizing the homotopy type of closed 4-manifolds \(M\) having universal covering homeomorphic to \(\mathbb{S}^2\times \mathbb{R}^2\). In particular, the fundamental group of \(M\) is nontrivial, and the second homotopy group is isomorphic to \(\mathbb{Z}\). If the Euler characteristic of \(M\) is less than or equal to zero, then the main result is that there are only finitely many homotopy types of such manifolds with fundamental group \(\pi\) and orientation character \(w_1(M)\). If \(w_1(M)\) is not zero, there are at most two such homotopy types with given first \(k\)-invariant. Furthermore, the author determines the second Stiefel-Whitney class \(w_2(M)\) and gives strong restrictions on the possible \(k\)-invariants when the Euler characteristic of \(M\) is null. Finally, he proves that the Whitehead group vanishes for all groups \(\pi\) arising as fundamental groups of such manifolds.

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