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Diffeomorphisms of Elliptic 3-Manifolds [electronic resource] / by Sungbok Hong, John Kalliongis, Darryl McCullough, J. Hyam Rubinstein.

By: Hong, Sungbok [author.].
Contributor(s): Kalliongis, John [author.] | McCullough, Darryl [author.] | Rubinstein, J. Hyam [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Lecture Notes in Mathematics: 2055Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012Description: X, 155 p. 22 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783642315640.Subject(s): Mathematics | Cell aggregation -- Mathematics | Mathematics | Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology)DDC classification: 514.34 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
1 Elliptic 3-manifolds and the Smale Conjecture -- 2 Diffeomorphisms and Embeddings of Manifolds -- 3 The Method of Cerf and Palais -- 4 Elliptic 3-manifolds Containing One-sided Klein Bottles -- 5 Lens Spaces.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This work concerns the diffeomorphism groups of 3-manifolds, in particular of elliptic 3-manifolds. These are the closed 3-manifolds that admit a Riemannian metric of constant positive curvature, now known to be exactly the closed 3-manifolds that have a finite fundamental group. The (Generalized) Smale Conjecture asserts that for any elliptic 3-manifold M, the inclusion from the isometry group of M to its diffeomorphism group is a homotopy equivalence. The original Smale Conjecture, for the 3-sphere, was proven by J. Cerf and A. Hatcher, and N. Ivanov proved the generalized conjecture for many of the elliptic 3-manifolds that contain a geometrically incompressible Klein bottle. The main results establish the Smale Conjecture for all elliptic 3-manifolds containing geometrically incompressible Klein bottles, and for all lens spaces L(m,q) with m at least 3. Additional results imply that for a Haken Seifert-fibered 3 manifold V, the space of Seifert fiberings has contractible components, and apart from a small list of known exceptions, is contractible. Considerable foundational and background material on diffeomorphism groups is included.
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1 Elliptic 3-manifolds and the Smale Conjecture -- 2 Diffeomorphisms and Embeddings of Manifolds -- 3 The Method of Cerf and Palais -- 4 Elliptic 3-manifolds Containing One-sided Klein Bottles -- 5 Lens Spaces.

This work concerns the diffeomorphism groups of 3-manifolds, in particular of elliptic 3-manifolds. These are the closed 3-manifolds that admit a Riemannian metric of constant positive curvature, now known to be exactly the closed 3-manifolds that have a finite fundamental group. The (Generalized) Smale Conjecture asserts that for any elliptic 3-manifold M, the inclusion from the isometry group of M to its diffeomorphism group is a homotopy equivalence. The original Smale Conjecture, for the 3-sphere, was proven by J. Cerf and A. Hatcher, and N. Ivanov proved the generalized conjecture for many of the elliptic 3-manifolds that contain a geometrically incompressible Klein bottle. The main results establish the Smale Conjecture for all elliptic 3-manifolds containing geometrically incompressible Klein bottles, and for all lens spaces L(m,q) with m at least 3. Additional results imply that for a Haken Seifert-fibered 3 manifold V, the space of Seifert fiberings has contractible components, and apart from a small list of known exceptions, is contractible. Considerable foundational and background material on diffeomorphism groups is included.

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