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Isospectrality and $3$-manifold groups

Author(s): Daniel Ruberman
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 2467-2471.
MSC (2000): Primary 57M10, 58J28
Posted: December 7, 2000
MathSciNet review: 1823933
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Abstract:

The Chern-Simons and $\eta$-invariants are closely related invariants of a Riemannian $3$-manifold. A difference in their behavior under taking a finite covering space is exploited to give an obstruction to a group being the fundamental group of a closed $3$-dimensional manifold.

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Additional Information:

Daniel Ruberman
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454
Email: ruberman@brandeis.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-00-05820-2
PII: S 0002-9939(00)05820-2
Received by editor(s): March 16, 1998
Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 6, 1999
Posted: December 7, 2000
Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by NSF Grant 4-50645
Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
Copyright of article: Copyright 2000, American Mathematical Society




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