On fundamental groups of symplectically aspherical manifolds. II: Abelian groups (Q884972)

The authors consider groups which can be realized as fundamental groups of closed symplectically aspherical manifold and call these groups symplectically aspherical. From introduction: ``One of our main results is the classification of finitely generated abelian symplectically aspherical groups. Theorem 1.2 A finitely generated abelian group \(\Gamma\) is symplectically aspherical if and only if either \(\Gamma\cong\mathbb Z^2\) or \(rank(\Gamma)\geq4\).'' ``We answer the question from \textit{R. Ibáñez, J. Kȩdra, Yu. Rudyak} and \textit{A. Tralle} [Math. Z. 248, 805-826 (2004; Zbl 1065.57027)] motivated by \textit{R. Gompf} [Math. Res. Lett. 5, 599-603 (1998; Zbl 0943.53049)], about the relation between two classes of symplectically aspherical groups. Recall that the class \(\mathcal A\) consists of group \(\Gamma\) realizable as \(\pi_1(M)\), where \(M\) is symplectically aspherical with \(\pi_2(M)=0\), while the class \(\mathcal B\) consists of symplectically aspherical groups realizable as \(\pi_1(M)\) with \(\pi_2(M)\neq0\). It is easy to see that the group \(\mathbb Z^2\) belongs to \(\mathcal A\) and does not belong to \(\mathcal B\) while in the paper by \textit{R. Ibáñez} and the authors, we asked whether \(\mathcal B\subset\mathcal A\). In this paper we show that \(\mathcal B\) is not a subset of \(\mathcal A\); for example, \(\mathbb Z^4\oplus\mathbb Z/2\in \mathcal B\backslash\mathcal A\) (see Proposition 5.3). This phenomenon deserves further investigation, since this gives a non-realizability result, which may reveal some new topological properties special to symplectic manifolds.'' ``In this work we focus on \(4\)-dimensional symplectic Lefschetz fibrations and provide conditions implying the symplectic asphericity of the total space.''