Closed geodesics on non-simply-connected manifolds

1993 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1154-1160 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. A. Ta�manov
Keyword(s):  
Closed Geodesics ◽  
Simply Connected Manifolds ◽  
Simply Connected

scholarly journals TOPOLOGICAL 4-MANIFOLDS WITH 4-DIMENSIONAL FUNDAMENTAL GROUP

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
DANIEL KASPROWSKI ◽  
MARKUS LAND
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Group ◽  
Homotopy Equivalent ◽  
Poincaré Duality ◽  
Poincare Duality ◽  
Canonical Map ◽  
Duality Space ◽  
Simply Connected Manifolds ◽  
Simply Connected ◽  
Poincaré Duality Space

Abstract Let $\pi$ be a group satisfying the Farrell–Jones conjecture and assume that $B\pi$ is a 4-dimensional Poincaré duality space. We consider topological, closed, connected manifolds with fundamental group $\pi$ whose canonical map to $B\pi$ has degree 1, and show that two such manifolds are s-cobordant if and only if their equivariant intersection forms are isometric and they have the same Kirby–Siebenmann invariant. If $\pi$ is good in the sense of Freedman, it follows that two such manifolds are homeomorphic if and only if they are homotopy equivalent and have the same Kirby–Siebenmann invariant. This shows rigidity in many cases that lie between aspherical 4-manifolds, where rigidity is expected by Borel’s conjecture, and simply connected manifolds where rigidity is a consequence of Freedman’s classification results.

Minimization of the number of periodic points for smooth self-maps of simply-connected manifolds with periodic sequence of Lefschetz numbers

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Graff ◽  
Agnieszka Kaczkowska
Keyword(s):  
Natural Number ◽  
Homotopy Class ◽  
Periodic Points ◽  
Topological Invariant ◽  
Periodic Sequence ◽  
Connected Manifold ◽  
Lefschetz Numbers ◽  
Simply Connected Manifolds ◽  
Simply Connected

AbstractLet f be a smooth self-map of m-dimensional, m ≥ 4, smooth closed connected and simply-connected manifold, r a fixed natural number. For the class of maps with periodic sequence of Lefschetz numbers of iterations the authors introduced in [Graff G., Kaczkowska A., Reducing the number of periodic points in smooth homotopy class of self-maps of simply-connected manifolds with periodic sequence of Lefschetz numbers, Ann. Polon. Math. (in press)] the topological invariant J[f] which is equal to the minimal number of periodic points with the periods less or equal to r in the smooth homotopy class of f.In this paper the invariant J[f] is computed for self-maps of 4-manifold M with dimH 2(M; ℚ) ≤ 4 and estimated for other types of manifolds. We also use J[f] to compare minimization of the number of periodic points in smooth and in continuous categories.

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