The homotopy type of a combinatorially aspherical presentation

DOI10.1007/BF01159956zbMath0421.55004MaRDI QIDQ1133202

Johannes Huebschmann

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/172976

zbMATH Keywords

homotopy typesecond homotopy groupfirst k-invariantcombinatorial asphericity of presentationgeometric realisation of presentation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Classification of homotopy type (55P15) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Postnikov systems, (k)-invariants (55S45) Homotopy groups of special spaces (55Q52)

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FINITELY GENERATED INFINITE SIMPLE GROUPS OF INFINITE COMMUTATOR WIDTH ⋮ Aspherical group presentations ⋮ Quasirationality and aspherical (pro-\(p\)-) presentations ⋮ On torsion-free groups with finite regular file bases

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