A well known theorem of Herman-Thurston states that the identity component of the group of diffeomorphisms of a boundaryless manifold is perfect and simple. We generalize this result to manifolds with boundary. Remarks on -diffeomorphisms are included.
Let Fⁿ be a connected, smooth and closed n-dimensional manifold. We call Fⁿ a manifold with property when it has the following property: if is any smooth closed m-dimensional manifold with m > n and is a smooth involution whose fixed point set is Fⁿ, then m = 2n. Examples of manifolds with this property are: the real, complex and quaternionic even-dimensional projective spaces , and , and the connected sum of and any number of copies of Sⁿ × Sⁿ, where Sⁿ is the n-sphere and n is not...
Soit un groupe de type fini non élémentaire. On note l’ensemble des structures hyperboliques de dimension sur . peut se réaliser comme fermé dans un espace semi-algébrique qui admet une compactification naturelle par le spectre réel. On note le compactifié via le réel de . L’objet de cet article est de décrire les points ajoutés dans . La compactification obtenue de cette manière permet d’interpréter “les points frontières” comme des représentations de dans où est un corps réel...
We show that the second group of cohomology with compact supports is nontrivial for three-dimensional systolic pseudomanifolds. It follows that groups acting geometrically on such spaces are not Poincaré duality groups.
We prove a compactness theorem for holomorphic curves in 4-dimensional symplectizations that have embedded projections to the underlying 3-manifold. It strengthens the cylindrical case of the SFT compactness theorem [BEH+C03] by using intersection theory to show that degenerations of such sequences never give rise to multiple covers or nodes, so transversality is easily achieved. This has application to the theory of stable finite energy foliations introduced in [HWZ03], and also suggests a new...