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Parallelizability of 4-dimensional infrasolvmanifolds

Geometric Topology 2013-05-20 v2

Abstract

We show that if MM is an orientable 4-dimensional infrasolvmanifold and either β=β1(M;Q)2\beta=\beta_1(M;\mathbb{Q})\geq2 or MM is a Sol04\mathbb{S}ol_0^4- or a Solm,n4\mathbb{S}ol_{m,n}^4-manifold (with mnm\not=n) then MM is parallelizable. There are non-parallelizable examples with β=1\beta=1 for each of the other solvable Lie geometries E4\mathbb{E}^4, Nil4\mathbb{N}il^4, Nil3×E1\mathbb{N}il^3\times\mathbb{E}^1 and Sol3×E1\mathbb{S}ol^3\times\mathbb{E}^1. We also determine which non-orientable flat 4-manifolds have a Pin+Pin^+- or PinPin^--structure, and consider briefly this question for the other cases.

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@article{arxiv.1105.1839,
  title  = {Parallelizability of 4-dimensional infrasolvmanifolds},
  author = {J. A. Hillman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.1839},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author, as Lee and Thoung have shown that one of the claimed consequences is false