Seifert fibered spaces

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Seifert fibered spaces are three-dimensional manifolds that can be decomposed into a disjoint union of circles arranged in a highly structured, fibered way over a two-dimensional orbifold.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 3-manifold
fiber bundle (up to singular fibers)
mathematical concept
appearsIn Thurston eight geometries NERFINISHED
Thurston geometrization conjecture NERFINISHED
baseDimension 2
baseOrbifoldProperty base orbifold may have cone points
base orbifold may have reflector curves
baseSpace 2-dimensional orbifold
classifiedBy Euler number of the fibration
Seifert invariants NERFINISHED
base orbifold
multiplicities of singular fibers
constructionMethod Dehn filling on a circle bundle over a surface
covers circle bundle over a surface (in some cases)
dimension 3
fiber S^1
circle
field 3-manifold theory
geometric topology
fundamentalGroupProperty contains infinite cyclic normal subgroup generated by a regular fiber
generalizes circle bundles over closed surfaces
hasComponent regular fibers
singular fibers
hasExample 3-sphere with Hopf fibration
S^2 × S^1
lens spaces
torus bundles over S^1
hasFundamentalGroup group fitting into short exact sequence with Z as normal subgroup
hasInvariant Seifert volume (in geometric cases)
orbifold Euler characteristic of the base
hasStructure decomposition into disjoint union of circles
locally trivial circle fibration away from singular fibers
introducedBy Herbert Seifert NERFINISHED
introducedInYear 1933
isSubsetOf Haken 3-manifolds (in many cases)
prime 3-manifolds
localModel S^1-bundle over a 2-dimensional disk for regular fibers
fibered solid torus with nontrivial gluing for singular fibers
namedAfter Herbert Seifert NERFINISHED
orientationProperty can be orientable or non-orientable
specialCaseOf graph manifold
supportsGeometry ilde{SL_2(R)}-geometry (in some cases) GENERATED
E^3-geometry (in some cases) GENERATED
Nil-geometry (in some cases) GENERATED
S^2 × R-geometry (in some cases) GENERATED
S^3-geometry (in some cases) GENERATED
usedIn JSJ decomposition of 3-manifolds
classification of closed orientable 3-manifolds with infinite fundamental group

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Dehn surgery canProduce Seifert fibered spaces