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Virtual surface Bundle groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

J. A. Hillman
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia e-mail: john@maths.usyd.edu.au
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Abstract

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We show that all torsion free groups which are virtual surface bundle groups of type I in Johnson's trichotomy may be realised by aspherical closed smooth 4-manifolds. (This was already known for type II.)

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2000

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