Diffeomorphism Groups of Compact 4-manifolds are not always Jordan
classification
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math.GR
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compactdiffeomorphismjordansubgroupabelianalwaysbundleconjecture
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We show that if $M$ is a compact smooth manifold diffeomorphic to the total space of an orientable $S^2$ bundle over the torus $T^2$, then its diffeomorphism group does not have the Jordan property, i.e., Diff$(M)$ contains a finite subgroup $G_n$ for any natural number $n$ such that every abelian subgroup of $G_n$ has index at leat $n$. This gives a counterexample to an old conjecture of Ghys.
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