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Weak collapsing and geometrisation of aspherical 3-manifolds
Laurent Bessières, Gérard Besson, Michel Boileau +2
Let M be a closed, orientable, irreducible, non-simply connected 3-manifold. We prove that if M admits a sequence of Riemannian metrics whose sectional curvature is locally control…
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On character varieties, sets of discrete characters, and non-zero degree maps
Michel Boileau, Steven Boyer
In this paper we use character variety methods to study homomorphisms between the fundamental groups of 3-manifolds, in particular those induced by non-zero degree maps. A {\it kno…