On the geometric boundaries of hyperbolic 4-manifolds.
The group of real analytic diffeomorphisms of a real analytic manifold is a rich group. It is dense in the group of smooth diffeomorphisms. Herman showed that for the -dimensional torus, its identity component is a simple group. For fibered manifolds, for manifolds admitting special semi-free actions and for 2- or 3-dimensional manifolds with nontrivial actions, we show that the identity component of the group of real analytic diffeomorphisms is a perfect group.
It is well-known that the Heegaard genus is additive under connected sum of 3-manifolds. We show that the Heegaard genus of contact 3-manifolds is not necessarily additive under contact connected sum. We also prove some basic properties of the contact genus (a.k.a. open book genus [Rubinstein J.H., Comparing open book and Heegaard decompositions of 3-manifolds, Turkish J. Math., 2003, 27(1), 189–196]) of 3-manifolds, and compute this invariant for some 3-manifolds.
This paper reports on some results concerning:a) The homotopy type of the group of diffeomorphisms of a differentiable compact manifold (with -topology).b) the result of the homotopy comparison of this space with the group of all homeomorphisms Homeo (with -topology). As a biproduct, one gets new facts about the homotopy groups of , and about the number of connected components of the space of topological and combinatorial pseudoisotopies.The results are contained in Section 1 and Section...
Given a closed 4-manifold M, let M* be the simply-connected 4-manifold obtained from M by killing the fundamental group. We study the relation between the intersection forms λM and λM*. Finally some topological consequences and examples are described.