Profinite almost rigidity in 3-manifolds
Abstract
We prove that any compact, orientable 3-manifold with empty or toral boundary is profinitely almost rigid among all compact, orientable 3-manifolds. In other words, the profinite completion of its fundamental group determines its homeomorphism type to finitely many possibilities. Moreover, the profinite completion of the fundamental group of a mixed 3-manifold, together with the peripheral structure, uniquely determines the homeomorphism type of its Seifert part, i.e. the maximal graph manifold components in the JSJ-decomposition. On the other hand, without assigning the peripheral structure, the profinite completion of a mixed 3-manifold group may not uniquely determine the fundamental group of its Seifert part. The proof is based on JSJ-decomposition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2410.16002,
title = {Profinite almost rigidity in 3-manifolds},
author = {Xiaoyu Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.16002},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Final version (77 pages); to appear in Adv. Math