English

Profinite rigidity and surface bundles over the circle

Group Theory 2017-08-09 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

If MM is a compact 3-manifold whose first betti number is 1, and NN is a compact 3-manifold such that π1N\pi_1N and π1M\pi_1M have the same finite quotients, then MM fibres over the circle if and only if NN does. We prove that groups of the form F2ZF_2\rtimes\mathbb{Z} are distinguished from one another by their profinite completions. Thus, regardless of betti number, if MM and NN are punctured torus bundles over the circle and MM is not homeomorphic to NN, then there is a finite group GG such that one of π1M\pi_1M and π1N\pi_1N maps onto GG 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

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