Cohomological dimension with respect to perfect groups (Q675111)

The authors consider the class of compacta with cohomological dimension one, with respect to perfect groups. In particular, they prove that there exist certain compacta, alled Cannon-Stan'ko compacta, of arbitrarily high dimension. A compactum \(X\) is said to be a Cannon-Stan'ko compactum provided that the cohomological dimension of \(X\) is at most one, with respect to the fundamental group of a minimal group, which is the direct limit of 2-polyhedra, which are constructed by attaching two 1-handles to each 1-handle pair of generators of the one-dimensional homology of the previous complex, and that the genus of the initial complex is one. Finally, they prove that the weakly Cainian compacta are precisely the two-dimensional Cannon-Stan'ko compacta.