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Local rigidity of aspherical three-manifolds

Pierre Derbez (2012)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

In this paper we construct, for each aspherical oriented 3 -manifold M , a 2 -dimensional class in the l 1 -homology of M whose norm combined with the Gromov simplicial volume of M gives a characterization of those nonzero degree maps from M to N which are homotopic to a covering map. As an application we characterize those degree one maps which are homotopic to a homeomorphism in term of isometries between the bounded cohomology groups of M and N .

Localization of basic characteristic classes

Dirk Töben (2014)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

We introduce basic characteristic classes and numbers as new invariants for Riemannian foliations. If the ambient Riemannian manifold M is complete, simply connected (or more generally if the foliation is a transversely orientable Killing foliation) and if the space of leaf closures is compact, then the basic characteristic numbers are determined by the infinitesimal dynamical behavior of the foliation at the union of its closed leaves. In fact, they can be computed with an Atiyah-Bott-Berline-Vergne-type...

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