Timeline for Do abelian spinorial prime three manifolds exist?
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| May 27, 2011 at 12:41 | vote | accept | Dionigi Benincasa | ||
| May 16, 2011 at 19:33 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | Even with the edit, "represented by -1" is not clear. Are you asking for this element of the mapping class group to map onto the generator of an infinite cyclic group? That's how I read your question. | |
| May 16, 2011 at 19:24 | answer | added | Ian Agol | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 16, 2011 at 16:17 | history | edited | Dionigi Benincasa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added some background motivation (with references) which might answer some of the questions asked
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| May 16, 2011 at 13:43 | history | edited | Dionigi Benincasa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 16, 2011 at 13:28 | comment | added | Sam Nead | 1. This is not the usual definition of MCG. 2. By the belt trick, the $2\pi$ rotation squares to be the identity. 3. The $2\pi$ rotation is central. 4. I don't know what you mean when you say "abelian representation" or "represented by -1". | |
| May 16, 2011 at 13:25 | comment | added | Dylan Thurston | Please edit the question statement to put in the clarifications. You're also presumably assuming that the manifold is spin, and looking at the spin mapping class group. | |
| May 16, 2011 at 12:21 | comment | added | HJRW | What do you mean by 'the' $2\pi$ rotation? | |
| May 16, 2011 at 11:41 | history | edited | Dionigi Benincasa |
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| May 16, 2011 at 10:48 | history | asked | Dionigi Benincasa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |