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Embedding $ 3$-manifolds with circle actions

Author(s): J. A. Hillman
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 4287-4294.
MSC (2000): Primary 57N10; Secondary 57N13
Posted: July 16, 2009
MathSciNet review: 2538589
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Abstract: Constraints on the Seifert invariants of orientable 3-manifolds $ M$ which admit fixed-point free $ S^1$-actions and embed in $ \mathbb{R}^4$ are given. In particular, the generalized Euler invariant of the orbit fibration is determined up to sign by the base orbifold $ B$ unless $ H_1(M;\mathbb{Z})$ is torsion free, in which case it can take at most one nonzero value (up to sign). An $ \mathbb{H}^2\times\mathbb{E}^1$-manifold $ M$ with base orbifold $ B=S^2(\alpha_1,\dots,\alpha_r)$ where all cone point orders are odd embeds in $ \mathbb{R}^4$ if and only if its Seifert data $ S$ is skew-symmetric.


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Additional Information:

J. A. Hillman
Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Email: jonh@maths.usyd.edu.au

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-09-09985-7
PII: S 0002-9939(09)09985-7
Keywords: Embedding, Euler invariant, linking pairing, Seifert bundle
Received by editor(s): January 19, 2009,
Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 2, 2009
Posted: July 16, 2009
Additional Notes: This paper began as a 1998 University of Sydney Research Report, but the main result was obtained while the author was visiting the University of Durham as the Grey College Mathematics Fellow for Michaelmas Term of 2008.
Communicated by: Daniel Ruberman
Copyright of article: Copyright 2009, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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