On the stable equivalence of open books in three-manifolds.
The foliation of a Morse form on a closed manifold is considered. Its maximal components (cylinders formed by compact leaves) form the foliation graph; the cycle rank of this graph is calculated. The number of minimal and maximal components is estimated in terms of characteristics of and . Conditions for the presence of minimal components and homologically non-trivial compact leaves are given in terms of and . The set of the ranks of all forms defining a given foliation without minimal...
We classify the genus one compact (PL) 5-manifolds and prove some results about closed 5-manifolds with free fundamental group. In particular, let be a closed connected orientable smooth -manifold with free fundamental group. Then we prove that the number of distinct smooth -manifolds homotopy equivalent to equals the -nd Betti number (mod ) of .
We explore some aspects of the topology of the family of 13-dimensional Bazaikin spaces. Using the computation of their homology rings, Pontryagin classes and linking forms, we show that there is only one Bazaikin space that is homotopy equivalent to a homogeneous space, i.e., the Berger space. Moreover, it is easily shown that there are only finitely many Bazaikin spaces in each homeomorphism type and that there are only finitely many positively curved ones for a given cohomology ring. In fact,...
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05E05, 14N10, 57R45.We study the structure of the Thom polynomials for A4(−) singularities. We analyze the Schur function expansions of these polynomials. We show that partitions indexing the Schur function expansions of Thom polynomials for A4(−) singularities have at most four parts. We simplify the system of equations that determines these polynomials and give a recursive description of Thom polynomials for A4(−) singularities. We also give Thom polynomials...