Diffeomorphisms of Elliptic 3-Manifolds

• Main Authors: Hong, Sungbok (Author), Kalliongis, John (Author), McCullough, Darryl (Author), Rubinstein, J. Hyam (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2055
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Manifolds (Mathematics).; Complex manifolds.; Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology).

This work concerns the diffeomorphism groups of 3-manifolds, in particular of elliptic 3-manifolds. These are the closed 3-manifolds that admit a Riemannian metric of constant positive curvature, now known to be exactly the closed 3-manifolds that have a finite fundamental group. The (Generalized) S...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Elliptic 3-manifolds and the Smale Conjecture
• 2 Diffeomorphisms and Embeddings of Manifolds
• 3 The Method of Cerf and Palais
• 4 Elliptic 3-manifolds Containing One-sided Klein Bottles
• 5 Lens Spaces.