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An infrasolvmanifold which does not bound

Geometric Topology 2013-05-20 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Every 4-dimensional infrasolvmanifold MM with β1(M;Q)>0\beta_1(M;\mathbb{Q})>0 or which is flat or has one of the geometries Nil4\mathbb{N}il^4, Solm,n4\mathbb{S}ol_{m,n}^4, or Sol04\mathbb{S}ol_0^4 bounds. However there are non-orientable Sol14\mathbb{S}ol_1^4-manifolds which do not bound. The question remains open for Nil3×E1\mathbb{N}il^3\times\mathbb{E}^1-manifolds. We also give simple cobounding 5-manifolds for all but five of the 74 flat 4-manifolds, and investigate which orientable flat 4-manifolds embed in R5\mathbb{R}^5.

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@article{arxiv.1106.4062,
  title  = {An infrasolvmanifold which does not bound},
  author = {J. A. Hillman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.4062},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author, as Lee and Thuong have shown that every $Sol_1^4$-manifold bounds, contradicting one of the claimed results. The error appears to flow from the earlier paper arXiv:1105.1839

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