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Open 3-manifolds whose fundamental groups have infinite center, and a torus theorem for 3-orbifolds

Author(s): Sylvain Maillot
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 355 (2003), 4595-4638.
MSC (2000): Primary 57N10
Posted: July 8, 2003
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Abstract: Our main result is a characterization of open Seifert fibered

-manifolds in terms of the fundamental group and large-scale geometric properties of a triangulation. As an application, we extend the Seifert Fiber Space Theorem and the Torus Theorem to a class of

-orbifolds.

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