Trivializing Sperical Fibrations and Embeddings of Poincaré Complexes.
We consider a real analytic dynamical system G×M→M with nonempty fixed point subset M G. Using symmetries of G×M→M, we give some conditions which imply the existence of transitive Lie transformation group with G as isotropy subgroup.
For the entire collection see Zbl 0699.00032.
Let M be a 4-manifold which admits a free circle action. We use twisted Alexander polynomials to study the existence of symplectic structures and the minimal complexity of surfaces in M. The results on the existence of symplectic structures summarize previous results of the authors in [FV08a,FV08,FV07]. The results on surfaces of minimal complexity are new.
We define a twisting move, an (n,k)-move, on a link diagram and consider the question as to whether or not any two links are equivalent by this move. Moreover we show that any knot can be trivialized by at most twice twisting operations.
In this work, we prove that every closed, orientable 3-manifold M3 which is a two-fold covering of S3 branched over a link, has type six.