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Flexible exponents of non-geometric 3-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2026-04-28 v1

Abstract

A classical question in quantitative topology is to bound the mapping degree deg(f)\operatorname{deg}(f) in terms of its Lipchitz constant Lip(f)\text{Lip}(f). For a closed, orientable, Riemannian manifold MM, the flexible exponent α(M)\alpha(M) is the infimum of α0\alpha\geqslant 0 such that deg(f)C(Lip(f))α|\text{deg}(f)|\leqslant C\cdot (\text{Lip}(f))^\alpha holds for any Lipschitz map f:MMf:M\to M. For a geometric 3-manifold MM in the sense of Thurston, α(M)\alpha(M) is determined in \cite{DLWWW}. In this paper, we determine α(M)\alpha(M) for non-geometric 3-manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.2604.23965,
  title  = {Flexible exponents of non-geometric 3-manifolds},
  author = {Jianfeng Lin and Hongbin Sun and Zhongzi Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.23965},
  year   = {2026}
}

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18 pages, 5 figures