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Four-Manifolds With Surface Fundamental Groups

Author(s): Alberto Cavicchioli; Friedrich Hegenbarth; Dusan Repovs
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 349 (1997), 4007-4019.
MSC (1991): Primary 57N65, 57R67, 57Q10
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Abstract: We study the homotopy type of closed connected topological $4$ -manifolds whose fundamental group is that of an aspherical surface $F$ . Then we use surgery theory to show that these manifolds are $s$ -cobordant to connected sums of simply-connected manifolds with an $\mathbb {S}^{2}$ -bundle over $F$ .

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Alberto Cavicchioli
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Modena, Via Campi 213/B, 41100 Modena, Italy
Email: albertoc@unimo.it

Friedrich Hegenbarth
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Milano, Via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy
Email: hegenbarth@vmimat.mat.unimi.it

Dusan Repovs
Affiliation: Institute for Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, University of Ljubljana, P. O. Box 64, Ljubljana 61111, Slovenia
Email: Dusan.repovs@uni-lj.si

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-97-01751-0
PII: S 0002-9947(97)01751-0
Keywords: Four-manifolds, homotopy type, $s$-cobordism, surgery, surface fundamental groups
Received by editor(s): January 20, 1995
Received by editor(s) in revised form: February 6, 1996
Additional Notes: Work performed under the auspices of the G.N.S.A.G.A. of the C.N.R. (National Research Council) of Italy and partially supported by the Ministero per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica of Italy within the projects ``Geometria Reale e Complessa'' and ``Topologia'' and by the Ministry for Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia Research Grant No. P1-0214-101-94.
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