Hopfian and strongly hopfian manifolds
Volume 159 / 1999
Fundamenta Mathematicae 159 (1999), 127-134
DOI: 10.4064/fm-159-2-127-134
Abstract
Let p: M → B be a proper surjective map defined on an (n+2)-manifold such that each point-preimage is a copy of a hopfian n-manifold. Then we show that p is an approximate fibration over some dense open subset O of the mod 2 continuity set C' and C' ∖ O is locally finite. As an application, we show that a hopfian n-manifold N is a codimension-2 fibrator if χ(N) ≠ 0 or $H_1(N) ≅ ℤ_2$