Curvature, tangentiality, and controlled topology.
Every compact smooth manifold is diffeomorphic to a nonsingular real algebraic set, called an algebraic model of . We study modulo 2 homology classes represented by algebraic subsets of , as runs through the class of all algebraic models of . Our main result concerns the case where is a spin manifold.
We show that, if the covering involution of a 3-manifold M occurring as the 2-fold branched covering of a knot in the 3-sphere is contained in a finite nonabelian simple group G of diffeomorphisms of M, then M is a homology 3-sphere and G isomorphic to the alternating or dodecahedral group 𝔸₅ ≅ PSL(2,5). An example of such a 3-manifold is the spherical Poincaré sphere. We construct hyperbolic analogues of the Poincaré sphere. We also give examples of hyperbolic ℤ₂-homology 3-spheres with PSL(2,q)-actions,...
In this paper we study the connections between cyclic presentations of groups and the fundamental group of cyclic branched coverings of 2-bridge knots. Then we show that the topology of these manifolds (and knots) arises, in a natural way, from the algebraic properties of such presentations.
We study cyclic coverings of S3 branched over a knot, and study conditions under which the covering is a homology sphere. We show that the sequence of orders of the first homology groups for a given knot is either periodic of tends to infinity with the order of the covering, a result recently obtained independently by Riley. From our computations it follows that, if surgery on a knot k with less than 10 crossings produces a manifold with cyclic fundamental group, then k is a torus knot.
In this article, we present two possible extensions of the classical theory of equivariant cohomology. The first, due to P. Baum, R. MacPherson and the author, is called the “delocalized theory". We attempt to present it in very concrete form for a circle action on a smooth manifold. The second is the cyclic homology of the crossed- product algebra of the algebra of smooth functions on a manifold, by the convolution algebra of smooth functions on a Lie group, when such Lie group act on the manifold....
Si stabiliscono due condizioni sufficienti per un germe di ipersuperficie reale di classe in affinchè esistano coordinate olomorfe rispetto alle quali l'ipersuperficie risulti essere il luogo di zeri di una funzione di variabili e sia minimale rispetto a questa proprietà. In altre parole si vuole che l'ipersuperficie, a meno di una trasformazione bi-olomorfa, sia l’unione di sottovarietà lineari complesse, parallele di dimensione .