Groups acting on finite dimensional spaces with finite stabilizers

DOI10.1007/s000140050048zbMath0927.20033MaRDI QIDQ1385234

Peter H. Kropholler, Guido Mislin

Publication date: 8 December 1999

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s000140050048

zbMATH Keywords

finite subgroups; finite groups; classifying spaces; simplicial complexes; HNN extensions; cohomological dimensions; posets of subgroups; free products with amalgamations; finite-dimensional contractible complexes; hierarchically decomposable groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57M07: Topological methods in group theory

20J05: Homological methods in group theory

20E06: Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations

55P20: Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces

55P91: Equivariant homotopy theory in algebraic topology

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