Halbeinfache Automorphismengruppen von vierdimensionalen stabilen Ebenen sind quasi-einfach.
Arnold conjectured that every Legendrian knot in the standard contact structure on the 3-sphere possesses a haracteristic chord with respect to any contact form. I confirm this conjecture if the know has Thurston-Bennequin invariant . More generally, existence of chords is proved for a standard Legendrian unknot on the boundary of a subcritical Stein manifold of any dimension. There is also a multiplicity result which implies in some situations existence of infinitely many chords. The proof relies...
The purpose of this paper is to relate several generalizations of the notion of the Heegaard splitting of a closed 3-manifold to compact, orientable 3-manifolds with nonempty boundary.
Let be the following algorithmic problem: Given a finite simplicial complex of dimension at most , does there exist a (piecewise linear) embedding of into ? Known results easily imply polynomiality of (; the case is graph planarity) and of for all . We show that the celebrated result of Novikov on the algorithmic unsolvability of recognizing the 5-sphere implies that and are undecidable for each . Our main result is NP-hardness of and, more generally, of for all , with...
The exceptional compact symmetric spaces and admit cohomogeneity one isometric actions with two totally geodesic singular orbits. These singular orbits are not reflective submanifolds of the ambient spaces. We prove that the radial unit vector fields associated to these isometric actions are harmonic and minimal.
Harmonic morphisms are considered as a natural generalization of the analytic functions of Riemann surface theory. It is shown that any closed analytic 3-manifold supporting a non-constant harmonic morphism into a Riemann surface must be a Seifert fibre space. Harmonic morphisms from a closed 4-manifold to a 3-manifold are studied. These determine a locally smooth circle action on with possible fixed points. This restricts the topology of . In all cases, a harmonic morphism from a closed...
The h-cobordism theorem is a noted theorem in differential and PL topology. A generalization of the h-cobordism theorem for possibly non simply connected manifolds is the so called s-cobordism theorem. In this paper, we prove semialgebraic and Nash versions of these theorems. That is, starting with semialgebraic or Nash cobordism data, we get a semialgebraic homeomorphism (respectively a Nash diffeomorphism). The main tools used are semialgebraic triangulation and Nash approximation.One aspect of...
By means of branched coverings techniques, we prove that the Heegaard genus and the regular genus of an orientable 3-manifold with boundary coincide.