Varieties of group representations and splittings of 3-manifolds. (English) Zbl 0529.57005
MSC:
57N10 | Topology of general \(3\)-manifolds (MSC2010) |
57M40 | Characterizations of the Euclidean \(3\)-space and the \(3\)-sphere (MSC2010) |
57M05 | Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus |
20C07 | Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) |
20F34 | Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) |
51M10 | Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations |
57M12 | Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings |