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Homotopy classification for certain 4-manifolds with dihedral fundamental groups.

Finite type and finitely generated homotopy groups for manifold automorphisms.

We study fundamental groups of non compact Riemannian manifolds. We find conditions which ensure that the fundamental group is trivial, finite or finitely generated.

Proves Singer conjecture for graph manifolds with residually finite groups.

Open manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and Euclidean volume growth have finitely generated fundamental groups.

Proves Singer conjecture for specific geometric varieties.

Groups with semistable peripheral subgroups are semistable.

Paper shows 3D hyperbolic manifolds are uniquely identified by their finite groups.

Study homomorphisms from groups to 3-manifold fundamental groups.

Ancient Ricci flows on non-collapsed manifolds have finite fundamental groups.

In 1968, Milnor conjectured that a complete noncompact manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature has a finitely generated fundamental group. The author applies the Excess Theorem of Abresch and Gromoll (1990), to prove two theorems. The first states that if such a manifold has small linear diameter growth then its fund…

We show that the group ${\Cal D}(M)$ of pseudoisotopy classes of diffeomorphisms of a manifold of dimension $\geq 5$ and of finite fundamental group is commensurable to an arithmetic group. As a result $π_0(\text{\it Diff\,M})$ is a group of finite type.

4-manifolds with specific groups have unique homotopy types.

The paper proves residual finiteness of certain lattices and constructs surfaces with specific fundamental groups.

Finite stature proven for cube complexes with cyclonormal edges.

Finite simply connected 2-complexes with nonpositive planar curvature are collapsible.

New bounds on Euler characteristics for certain manifolds with finite groups.

The study shows simplicial volume finiteness for certain manifolds with amenable fundamental groups.

Given a finite graph of relatively hyperbolic groups with its fundamental group relatively hyperbolic and edge groups quasi-isometrically embedded and relatively quasiconvex in vertex groups, we prove that vertex groups are relatively quasiconvex if and only if all the vertex groups have finite relative height in the f…

New examples of hyperbolic 3-manifolds with unique profinite structure.

Given a prime $p$, a group is called residually $p$ if the intersection of its $p$-power index normal subgroups is trivial. A group is called virtually residually $p$ if it has a finite index subgroup which is residually $p$. It is well-known that finitely generated linear groups over fields of characteristic zero are …

In this paper, we prove a geometrization conjecture, every orientable smooth closed 3-manifold with finite fundamental group is homeomorphic to $S^3/G$ for some finite cyclic subgroup $G\subset {Isom}^+(S^3)$.

Characterizes Stein surfaces with finite homotopy rank-sum.

Complete surgery obstructions for manifolds with finite fundamental group, disproving a conjecture.

We study spaces obtained from a complete finite volume complex hyperbolic n-manifold M by removing a compact totally geodesic complex (n-1)-submanifold. The main result is that the fundamental group of M-S is relatively hyperbolic, relative to fundamental groups of the ends of M-S, and M-S admits a complete finite volu…

We prove that every finitely presentable group G arises as the fundamental group of an orientable 3-complex obtained from a hyperbolic link complement, by coning each boundary torus of the link exterior to a distinct point. We define the closed-link-genus, clg(G), of any finitely presentable group G, which completely c…

Study fundamental groups of geometric transformation groups using loop spaces.

We study fundamental groups of projective varieties with normal crossing singularities and of germs of complex singularities. We prove that for every finitely-presented group G there is a complex projective surface S with simple normal crossing singularities only, so that the fundamental group of S is isomorphic to G. …

The paper classifies 4-manifolds based on their fundamental groups and orientation characters.

The paper shows plentiful non-homotopy finite Poincaré duality spaces.

We prove that, for any two finite volume hyperbolic $3$-manifolds, the amalgamation of their fundamental groups along any nontrivial geometrically finite subgroup is not LERF. This generalizes the author's previous work on nonLERFness of amalgamations of hyperbolic $3$-manifold groups along abelian subgroups. A consequ…

Every finitely presented group is the fundamental group of the total space of a Lefschetz fibration. This follows from results of Gompf and Donaldson, and was also proved by Amoros-Bogomolov-Katzarkov-Pantev. We give another proof by providing the monodromy explicitly. We then define the genus of a finitely presented g…

A myriad of irreducible symplectic 4-manifolds with abelian non-cyclic fundamental group is constructed. The botany of manifolds with finite non-cyclic fundamental groups is also studied.

We prove that a connected 2-dimensional orbifold with finitely generated and infinite orbifold fundamental group is good. We also describe all the good 2-dimensional orbifolds with finite orbifold fundamental groups

Study finite group actions on aspherical manifolds, proving rigidity and symmetry bounds.

A group action H on X is called "telescopic" if for any finitely presented group G, there exists a subgroup H' in H such that G is isomorphic to the fundamental group of X/H'. We construct examples of telescopic actions on some CAT[-1] spaces, in particular on 3 and 4-dimensional hyperbolic spaces. As applications we g…

Suppose n>2, let M,M' be n-dimensional connected complete finite-volume hyperbolic manifolds with non-empty geodesic boundary, and suppose that the fundamental group of M is quasi-isometric to the fundamental group of M' (with respect to the word metric). Also suppose that if n=3, then the boundaries of M and of M' are…

Study irrational pencils on complex manifolds, finding non-finitely generated homology.

This paper presents an investigation of the relation between some positivity of the curvature and the finiteness of fundamental groups in semi-Riemannian geometry. We consider semi-Riemannian submersions $π: (E, g) \rightarrow (B, -g_{B})$ under the condition with $(B, g_{B})$ Riemannian, the fiber closed Riemannian, …

Study of circle configurations in the plane, proving aspherical space and computing fundamental groups.

It is an open question (Pawlikowski) whether every finitely generated group can be realized as a fundamental group of a compact metric space. In this paper we prove that any countable group can be realized as the fundamental group of a compact subspace of four dimensional Euclidean space. According to theorems of Shela…

Study relationships between submanifolds and ambient Kahler 4-manifolds' fundamental groups.

We show that if a complete Riemannian manifold supports a vector field such that the Ricci tensor plus the Lie derivative of the metric with respect to the vector field has a positive lower bound, then the fundamental group is finite. In particular, it follows that complete shrinking Ricci solitons and complete smooth …

This paper addresses questions of quasi-isometric rigidity and classification for fundamental groups of finite graphs of groups, under the assumption that the Bass-Serre tree of the graph of groups has finite depth. The main example of a finite depth graph of groups is one whose vertex and edge groups are coarse Poinca…

We show that two closed, connected $4$-manifolds with finite fundamental groups are $\mathbb{CP}^2$-stably homeomorphic if and only if their quadratic $2$-types are stably isomorphic and their Kirby-Siebenmann invariant agrees.

By recognizing them as fundamental groups of developable complexes of groups we prove that mapping class groups of compact orientable surfaces have finite asymptotic dimension.

Proves 3D Poincaré duality groups without property (T)

Let X be a finite CW-complex of dimension q. If its fundamental group $π_{1}(X)$ is polycyclic of Hirsch number h>q we show that at least one of the homotopy groups $π_{i}(X)$ is not finitely generated. If h=q or h=q-1 the same conclusion holds unless X is an Eilenberg-McLane space $K(π_{1}(X),1)$.