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Thurston's fragmentation and c-principles

Algebraic Topology 2023-03-28 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

In this paper, we generalize the original idea of Thurston for the so called Mather-Thurston's theorem for foliated bundles to prove new variants of this theorem for PL homeomorphisms, contactormorphisms. These versions answer questions posed by Gelfand -Fuks and Greenberg on PL foliations and Rybicki on contactomorphisms. The interesting point about the original Thurston's technique compared to the better known Segal-McDuff's proof of the Mather-Thurston theorem is that it gives a compactly supported c-principle theorem without knowing the relevant local statement on open balls. In the appendix, we show that Thurston's fragmentation implies the non-abelian Poincare duality theorem and its generalization using blob complexes.

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@article{arxiv.2011.04156,
  title  = {Thurston's fragmentation and c-principles},
  author = {Sam Nariman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.04156},
  year   = {2023}
}

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37 pages, to appear in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma

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