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Classifications of special double-coverings associated to a non-orientable surface

Geometric Topology 2008-06-03 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

This paper investigates some actions "\`a la Johnson" on the set, denoted by E{\cal E}, of Spin-structures which are interpreted as special double-coverings of a trivial S1S^1-fibration over a non-orientable surface Ng+1N_{g+1}. The group acting is first a group of orthogonal isomorphisms assoiciated to Ng+1N_{g+1}. A second approach is to consider the subspace of E{\cal E} (with 2g2^{g} elements) coming from special double-coverings of S1×FgS^1\times F_g, where FgF_g is the orientation covering of Ng+1N_{g+1}. The group acting now is a subgroup of the group of symplectic isomorphisms associated to FgF_{g}. In both situations, we obtain results on the number of orbits and the number of elements in each orbit. Except in one case, these results do not depend on any necessary choices. We compare both previous classifications to a third one: weak-equivalence of coverings

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@article{arxiv.0806.0303,
  title  = {Classifications of special double-coverings associated to a non-orientable surface},
  author = {Anne Bauval and Claude Hayat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0303},
  year   = {2008}
}

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22 pages, 4 figures

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