Whitehead's asphericity question and its relation to other open problems

DOI10.1007/978-981-13-5742-8_3zbMATH Open1430.57020OpenAlexW2914258187MaRDI QIDQ2312904FDOQ2312904

Authors: A. J. Berrick, Jonathan A. Hillman 

Publication date: 18 July 2019

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5742-8_3

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zbMATH Keywords

cohomological dimensionWhitehead conjecture\(L^2\) Betti numberacyclic coverCockcroft conditionsubaspherical complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

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