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Finiteness of mapping degree sets for 3-manifolds

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By constructing certain maps, this note completes the answer of the question: For which closed orientable 3-manifold N, is the set of mapping degrees D(M,N) finite for any closed orientable 3-manifold M?

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  1. Centre de Mathématiques et d’Informatique, Technopole de Chateau-Gombert, 39, rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie, 13453, Marseille Cedex 13, France

    Pierre Derbez

  2. Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

    Hong Bin Sun

  3. Department of Mathematics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China

    Shi Cheng Wang

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The third author is partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10631060) and Ph.D. grant of the Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. 5171042-055)

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Derbez, P., Sun, H.B. & Wang, S.C. Finiteness of mapping degree sets for 3-manifolds. Acta. Math. Sin.-English Ser. 27, 807–812 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10114-011-0416-x

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