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Diffeomorphism Groups of Compact 4-manifolds are not always Jordan

Differential Geometry 2014-12-01 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

We show that if MM is a compact smooth manifold diffeomorphic to the total space of an orientable S2S^2 bundle over the torus T2T^2, then its diffeomorphism group does not have the Jordan property, i.e., Diff(M)(M) contains a finite subgroup GnG_n for any natural number nn such that every abelian subgroup of GnG_n has index at leat nn. 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