The cohomology of a Coxeter group with group ring coefficients (Q1974778)

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The cohomology of a Coxeter group with group ring coefficients
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    The cohomology of a Coxeter group with group ring coefficients (English)
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    27 March 2000
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    In this interesting paper the author associates to a Coxeter system \((W,S)\) with \(S\) finite, a certain contractible simplicial complex \(\Sigma\), on which \(W\) acts properly and cocompactly and computes the cohomology at infinity of \(\Sigma\). As consequences, given a torsion-free subgroup \(\Gamma\) of finite index in \(W\), he gets a formula for the cohomology of \(\Gamma\) with group ring coefficients, as well as a simple necessary and sufficient condition for \(\Gamma\) to be a Poincaré duality group. Moreover, he uses the reflection group trick to show how the Bestvina-Brady examples, groups that are of type FP but not finitely presented, can be promoted to examples of Poincaré duality groups. In particular, he shows that in each dimension \(\geq 4\) there are examples of Poincaré duality groups that are not finitely presented.
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    torsion-free subgroups of finite index
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    groups of type FP
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    Coxeter systems
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    contractible simplicial complexes
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    cohomology at infinity
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    Poincaré duality groups
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