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The linking pairings of orientable Seifert manifolds

Geometric Topology 2011-10-20 v2

Abstract

We compute the pp-primary components of the linking pairings of orientable 3-manifolds admitting a fixed-point free S1S^1-action. Using this, we show that any non-singular linking pairing on a finite abelian group with homogeneous 2-primary summand is realized by such a manifold. However, some pairings on inhomogeneous 2-groups are not realizable by any Seifert fibred 3-manifold.

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@article{arxiv.1004.0034,
  title  = {The linking pairings of orientable Seifert manifolds},
  author = {Jonathan A. Hillman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.0034},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

The paper has been rewritten to display the results more clearly, and errors flowing from an inconsistent choice of signs have been corrected. The formulation of the final result on 2-torsion has also been improved