Ordering Thurston's geometries by maps of non-zero degree
31 May 2017
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Neofytidis Christoforos
We obtain an ordering of closed aspherical 4-manifolds that carry a
non-hyperbolic Thurston geometry. As application, we derive that the Kodaira
dimension of geometric 4-manifolds is monotone with respect to the existence of
maps of non-zero degree...