A characterization of virtual Poincaré duality groups

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1029005155MaRDI QIDQ1895952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher W. Stark

Publication date 16 April 1996

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1307/mmj/1029005155

zbMATH Keywords

cohomological dimensioncovering spacefibrationsfinite presented grouphomotopy fibrePL manifoldvirtual Poincaré duality groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections of group theory with homological algebra and category theory (20J99) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Poincaré duality spaces (57P10)

Review text

The author characterizes virtual Poincaré duality groups as follows: Let \(\Gamma\) be a finite presented group of finite (virtual) cohomological dimension. Then \(\Gamma\) is a (virtual) Poincaré duality group if and only if there exists a closed PL manifold \(M\) with fundamental groups \(\Gamma\) and universal cover \(\widetilde {M}\) such that \(\widetilde {M}\) is homotopy equivalent to a finite complex. A corollary results in striking out the word virtual.

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