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Nilpotent groups and compact 3-manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Charles Thomas
Charles Thomas
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Cornell University
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The purpose of this paper is to give a complete list of those nilpotent groups which can be the fundamental groups of connected, closed, compact but possibly non-orientable 3-manifolds. The starting point is the following theorem of Reidmeister, which is given a neat proof in (1).

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 64 , Issue 2 , April 1968 , pp. 303 - 306
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1968

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