Residual properties of graph manifold groups

Details Residual properties of graph manifold groups Residual properties of graph manifold groups

2010-04-21

arxiv.org/abs/1004.3618v1

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Geometric Topology

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Let $f\colon M\to N$ be a continuous map between closed irreducible graph manifolds with infinite fundamental group. Perron and Shalen showed that if $f$ induces a homology equivalence on all finite covers, then $f$ is in fact homotopic to a homeomorphism. Their proof used the statement that every graph manifold is finitely covered by a $3$-manifold whose fundamental group is residually $p$ for every prime $p$. We will show that this statement regarding graph manifold groups is not true in general, but we will show how to modify the argument of Perron and Shalen to recover their main result. As a by-product we will determine all semidirect products $\Z \ltimes \Z^d$ which are residually $p$ for every prime $p$.

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