$S^2$-bundles over aspherical surfaces and 4-dimensional geometries
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- by Robin J. Cobb and Jonathan A. Hillman
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 3415-3422
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-04099-9
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Abstract:
Melvin has shown that closed 4-manifolds that arise as $S^{2}$-bundles over closed, connected aspherical surfaces are classified up to diffeomorphism by the Stiefel-Whitney classes of the associated bundles. We show that each such 4-manifold admits one of the geometries $S^{2}\times E^{2}$ or $S^{2}\times \mathbb {H}^{2}$ [depending on whether $\chi (M)=0$ or $\chi (M)<0$]. Conversely a geometric closed, connected 4-manifold $M$ of type $S^{2}\times E^{2}$ or $S^{2}\times \mathbb {H}^{2}$ is the total space of an $S^{2}$-bundle over a closed, connected aspherical surface precisely when its fundamental group $\Pi _{1}(M)$ is torsion free. Furthermore the total spaces of $\mathbb {RP}^{2}$-bundles over closed, connected aspherical surfaces are all geometric. Conversely a geometric closed, connected 4-manifold $M’$ is the total space of an $\mathbb {RP}^{2}$-bundle if and only if $\Pi _{1}(M’)\cong \mathbb {Z}/2\mathbb {Z}\times K$ where $K$ is torsion free.References
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Bibliographic Information
- Robin J. Cobb
- Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
- Email: robinc@maths.usyd.edu.au
- Jonathan A. Hillman
- Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
- Email: jonh@maths.usyd.edu.au
- Received by editor(s): May 10, 1996
- Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
- © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 3415-3422
- MSC (1991): Primary 57N50; Secondary 57N13, 55R25
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-04099-9
- MathSciNet review: 1422856