Open books and h-cobordisms.
By using open book techniques we give an alternative proof of a theorem about the existence of contact structures on five-manifolds due to Geiges. The theorem asserts that simply-connected five-manifolds admit a contact structure in every homotopy class of almost contact structures.
Let F = ind lim Fₙ be an infinite-dimensional LF-space with density dens F = τ ( ≥ ℵ ₀) such that some Fₙ is infinite-dimensional and dens Fₙ = τ. It is proved that every open subset of F is homeomorphic to the product of an ℓ₂(τ)-manifold and (hence the product of an open subset of ℓ₂(τ) and ). As a consequence, any two open sets in F are homeomorphic if they have the same homotopy type.
We explore the interior geometry of the CAT(0) spaces , constructed by Croke and Kleiner [Topology 39 (2000)]. In particular, we describe a diffraction effect experienced by the family of geodesic rays that emanate from a basepoint and pass through a certain singular point called a triple point, and we describe the shadow this family casts on the boundary. This diffraction effect is codified in the Transformation Rules stated in Section 3 of this paper. The Transformation Rules have various applications....
The orbit projection of a proper -manifold is a fibration if and only if all points in are regular. Under additional assumptions we show that is a quasifibration if and only if all points are regular. We get a full answer in the equivariant category: is a -quasifibration if and only if all points are regular.
In this paper we describe the orbit structure of -actions of on the solid torus having and as the only compact orbits, and as singular set.