Periodic complexes and group actions
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Abstract: In this paper we show that the cohomology of a connected CW complex is periodic if and only if it is the base space of an orientable spherical fibration with total space that is homotopically finite dimensional. As applications we characterize those discrete groups that act freely and properly on a cartesian product of euclidean space and a sphere; we construct non-standard free actions of rank two simple groups on finite complexes Y homotopy equivalent to a product of two spheres and we prove that a finite p-group P acts freely on such a complex if and only if it does not contain a subgroup isomorphic to Z/p X Z/p X Z/p.
A space is said to have periodic cohomology if there is a cohomology class \(\alpha\), of positive degree, such that taking cup products with \(\alpha\) gives an isomorphism in sufficiently high degrees. The main result of this paper is a homotopy-theoretic characterization of CW-complexes which have periodic cohomology. The authors enumerate many interesting applications of this. For example, a discrete group has periodic cohomology if, and only if, the group acts freely and properly on a finite dimensional complex that is homotopy equivalent to a sphere. And a finite \(p\)-group acts freely on a finite complex homotopy equivalent to a product of two spheres if, and only if, the group does not contain a subgroup isomorphic to \({\mathbb Z}/p \times {\mathbb Z}/p \times {\mathbb Z}/p\).
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