Deformation and rigidity of simplicial group actions on trees.
The cotangent cohomology of S. Lichtenbaum and M. Schlessinger [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 128, 41-70 (1967; Zbl 0156.27201)] is known for its ability to control the deformation of the structure of a commutative algebra. Considering algebras in the wider sense to include coalgebras, bialgebras and similar algebraic structures such as the Drinfel’d algebras encountered in the theory of quantum groups, one can model such objects as models for an algebraic theory much in the sense of F. W. Lawvere [Proc....
We introduce a new cohomology for Lie algebroids, and prove that it provides a differential graded Lie algebra which “controls” deformations of the structure bracket of the algebroid.
In this paper we give a brief survey of the present state of knowledge on exceptional Dehn fillings on 3-manifolds with torus boundary. For our discussion, it is necessary to first give a quick overview of what is presently known, and what is conjectured, about the structure of 3-manifolds. This is done in Section 2. In Section 3 we summarize the known bounds on the distances between various kinds of exceptional Dehn fillings, and compare these with the distances that arise in known examples. In...
Let be the Dehn twist about a circle a on an orientable surface. It is well known that for each circle b and an integer n, , where I(·,·) is the geometric intersection number. We prove a similar formula for circles on nonorientable surfaces. As a corollary we prove some algebraic properties of twists on nonorientable surfaces. We also prove that if ℳ(N) is the mapping class group of a nonorientable surface N, then up to a finite number of exceptions, the centraliser of the subgroup of ℳ(N) generated...