K-Theory of Solvable Groups

DOI10.1112/S0024611503014072MaRDI QIDQ4434575zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter A. Linnell, F. Thomas Farrell

Publication date 10 November 2003

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0207138

zbMATH Keywords

fibered isomorphism conjecturenearly crystallographic groupsNovikov conjecturevirtually solvable subgroupWhitehead group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K_1) of group rings and orders (19B28) (L)-theory of group rings (19G24) Special aspects of infinite or finite groups (20F99)

Abstract: We first prove that the Whitehead group of a torsion-free virtually solvable linear group vanishes. Next we make a reduction of the fibered isomorphism conjecture from virtually solvable groups to a class of virtually solvable Q-linear groups. Finally we prove an L-theory analogue for elementary amenable groups.

Review text

The first result is that a torsion free virtually solvable subgroup of \(\text{GL}_n(\mathbb C)\) has trivial Whitehead group \(\text{Wh}(G)\). Next the authors turn to the fibered isomorphism conjecture (FIC) of \textit{F. T. Farrell} and \textit{L. E. Jones} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 6, 249-297 (1993; Zbl 0798.57018)], which says that a certain Quinn assembly map is an isomorphism. They show that if FIC holds for all nearly crystallographic groups, then it holds for all virtually solvable groups. Here a nearly crystallographic group is a semidirect product \(A \rtimes C\) with \(C\) virtually cyclic and \(A\) a finitely generated \(C\)-invariant additive subgroup of a finite-dimensional irreducible representation of \(\mathbb Q[C]\). Amongst other things the proof uses groups acting on trees and a study of direct limits. \(L\)-theory analogues of FIC are considered next. It is shown that every elementary amenable group satisfies a version of FIC in that context. As an application a new example is given of a finitely presented group \(\Gamma\) such that \(\dim_{\mathbb Q} L_i(\mathbb Z\Gamma)\otimes \mathbb Q= \infty\) for all \(i\).

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