Profinite rigidity and surface bundles over the circle
Group Theory
2017-08-09 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
If is a compact 3-manifold whose first betti number is 1, and is a compact 3-manifold such that and have the same finite quotients, then fibres over the circle if and only if does. We prove that groups of the form are distinguished from one another by their profinite completions. Thus, regardless of betti number, if and are punctured torus bundles over the circle and is not homeomorphic to , then there is a finite group such that one of and maps onto and the other does not.
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@article{arxiv.1610.02410,
title = {Profinite rigidity and surface bundles over the circle},
author = {Martin R. Bridson and Alan W. Reid and Henry Wilton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02410},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
17 pages, no figures. v2 minor corrections. This is the final version accepted for publication