Diffeomorphism Groups of Compact 4-manifolds are not always Jordan
Differential Geometry
2014-12-01 v1 Group Theory
Abstract
We show that if is a compact smooth manifold diffeomorphic to the total space of an orientable bundle over the torus , then its diffeomorphism group does not have the Jordan property, i.e., Diff contains a finite subgroup for any natural number such that every abelian subgroup of has index at leat . This gives a counterexample to an old conjecture of Ghys.
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@article{arxiv.1411.7524,
title = {Diffeomorphism Groups of Compact 4-manifolds are not always Jordan},
author = {Balázs Csikós and László Pyber and Endre Szabó},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.7524},
year = {2014}
}
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4 pages