English

Ordering Thurston's geometries by maps of non-zero degree

Geometric Topology 2019-09-09 v3 Algebraic Topology Group Theory

Abstract

We obtain an ordering of closed aspherical 4-manifolds that carry a non-hyperbolic Thurston geometry. As application, we derive that the Kodaira dimension of geometric 4-manifolds is monotone with respect to the existence of maps of non-zero degree.

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@article{arxiv.1607.03058,
  title  = {Ordering Thurston's geometries by maps of non-zero degree},
  author = {Christoforos Neofytidis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.03058},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

18 pages; v2: new section added (Section 6 on Kodaira dimension); v3: minor edits; part of this paper was formerly contained in arXiv:1507.07778; to appear in Journal of Topology and Analysis