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Profinite almost rigidity in 3-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2025-09-04 v4 Group Theory

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.

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@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

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