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Seifert Fiberings
 
Kyung Bai Lee University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Frank Raymond University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Seifert Fiberings
Hardcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-5231-6
Product Code:  SURV/166
List Price: $129.00
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eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-1393-4
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Hardcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-5231-6
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Seifert Fiberings
Kyung Bai Lee University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Frank Raymond University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Hardcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-5231-6
Product Code:  SURV/166
List Price: $129.00
MAA Member Price: $116.10
AMS Member Price: $103.20
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-1393-4
Product Code:  SURV/166.E
List Price: $125.00
MAA Member Price: $112.50
AMS Member Price: $100.00
Hardcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-5231-6
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-1393-4
Product Code:  SURV/166.B
List Price: $254.00 $191.50
MAA Member Price: $228.60 $172.35
AMS Member Price: $203.20 $153.20
  • Book Details
     
     
    Mathematical Surveys and Monographs
    Volume: 1662010; 396 pp
    MSC: Primary 55; 57; Secondary 53; 58

    Seifert fiberings extend the notion of fiber bundle mappings by allowing some of the fibers to be singular. Away from the singular fibers, the fibering is an ordinary bundle with fiber a fixed homogeneous space. The singular fibers are quotients of this homogeneous space by distinguished groups of homeomorphisms. These fiberings are ubiquitous and important in mathematics. This book describes in a unified way their structure, how they arise, and how they are classified and used in applications. Manifolds possessing such fiber structures are discussed and range from the classical three-dimensional Seifert manifolds to higher dimensional analogues encompassing, for example, flat manifolds, infra-nil-manifolds, space forms, and their moduli spaces. The necessary tools not covered in basic graduate courses are treated in considerable detail. These include transformation groups, cohomology of groups, and needed Lie theory. Inclusion of the Bieberbach theorems, existence, uniqueness, and rigidity of Seifert fiberings, aspherical manifolds, symmetric spaces, toral rank of spherical space forms, equivariant cohomology, polynomial structures on solv-manifolds, fixed point theory, and other examples, exercises and applications attest to the breadth of these fiberings. This is the first time the scattered literature on singular fiberings is brought together in a unified approach. The new methods and tools employed should be valuable to researchers and students interested in geometry and topology.

    Readership

    Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in topology (transformation groups, manifolds, singular fiberings, and differential geometry).

  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Chapters
    • 1. Transformation groups
    • 2. Group actions and the fundamental group
    • 3. Actions of compact Lie groups on manifolds
    • 4. Definition of Seifert fibering
    • 5. Group cohomology
    • 6. Lie groups
    • 7. Seifert fiber space construction for $G\times W$
    • 8. Generalization of Bieberbach’s theorems
    • 9. Seifert manifolds with $\Gamma \setminus G/K$-fiber
    • 10. Locally injective Seifert fiberings with torus fibers
    • 11. Applications
    • 12. Seifert fiberings with compact connected $Q$
    • 13. Deformation spaces
    • 14. $S^1$-actions on 3-dimensional manifolds
    • 15. Classification of Seifert 3-manifolds via equivariant cohomology
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Volume: 1662010; 396 pp
MSC: Primary 55; 57; Secondary 53; 58

Seifert fiberings extend the notion of fiber bundle mappings by allowing some of the fibers to be singular. Away from the singular fibers, the fibering is an ordinary bundle with fiber a fixed homogeneous space. The singular fibers are quotients of this homogeneous space by distinguished groups of homeomorphisms. These fiberings are ubiquitous and important in mathematics. This book describes in a unified way their structure, how they arise, and how they are classified and used in applications. Manifolds possessing such fiber structures are discussed and range from the classical three-dimensional Seifert manifolds to higher dimensional analogues encompassing, for example, flat manifolds, infra-nil-manifolds, space forms, and their moduli spaces. The necessary tools not covered in basic graduate courses are treated in considerable detail. These include transformation groups, cohomology of groups, and needed Lie theory. Inclusion of the Bieberbach theorems, existence, uniqueness, and rigidity of Seifert fiberings, aspherical manifolds, symmetric spaces, toral rank of spherical space forms, equivariant cohomology, polynomial structures on solv-manifolds, fixed point theory, and other examples, exercises and applications attest to the breadth of these fiberings. This is the first time the scattered literature on singular fiberings is brought together in a unified approach. The new methods and tools employed should be valuable to researchers and students interested in geometry and topology.

Readership

Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in topology (transformation groups, manifolds, singular fiberings, and differential geometry).

  • Chapters
  • 1. Transformation groups
  • 2. Group actions and the fundamental group
  • 3. Actions of compact Lie groups on manifolds
  • 4. Definition of Seifert fibering
  • 5. Group cohomology
  • 6. Lie groups
  • 7. Seifert fiber space construction for $G\times W$
  • 8. Generalization of Bieberbach’s theorems
  • 9. Seifert manifolds with $\Gamma \setminus G/K$-fiber
  • 10. Locally injective Seifert fiberings with torus fibers
  • 11. Applications
  • 12. Seifert fiberings with compact connected $Q$
  • 13. Deformation spaces
  • 14. $S^1$-actions on 3-dimensional manifolds
  • 15. Classification of Seifert 3-manifolds via equivariant cohomology
Review Copy – for publishers of book reviews
Permission – for use of book, eBook, or Journal content
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