Bounded Powers Extend

Abstract

We are interested in proving the following statement: Given a 3-manifold M with boundary and a homeomorphism of the boundary f : ∂M → ∂M such that there is some power that extends to M, there is some k depending only on the genus g(∂M) and some l < k such that ƒᶩ extends to M. We will prove that the power needed to extend is not uniformly bounded with some examples, we will prove the statement is true if M is boundary incompressible and we will show that the general statement reduces to effectivising some technical results about pure homeomorphisms extending to compression bodies.