Classifying spaces with virtually cyclic stabilizers for linear groups

DOI10.1007/S00031-015-9307-ZMaRDI QIDQ2353483zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nansen Petrosyan, Dieter Degrijse, Ralf Köhl (né Gramlich)

Publication date 14 July 2015

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4749

zbMATH Keywords

classifying space for a familylinear groupsvirtually cyclic subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computations of higher (K)-theory of rings (19D50) Geometric group theory (20F65) Other matrix groups over fields (20H20) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35)

Abstract: We show that every discrete subgroup of $mathrmGL(n,mathbbR)$ admits a finite dimensional classifying space with virtually cyclic stabilizers. Applying our methods to $mathrmSL(3,mathbbZ)$, we obtain a four dimensional classifying space with virtually cyclic stabilizers and a decomposition of the algebraic $K$-theory of its group ring.

Review text

Constructions of classifying spaces for groups with stabilizers in a family have become important after many instances of the Farrell-Jones conjecture have been established. The conjecture relates the algebraic K-theory of a group ring for a group to the equivariant homology of such space. Of particular interest is the family of virtually cyclic subgroups since the Farrell-Jones conjecture is proposed to always hold true for this family. From the computational perspective, it is valuable to construct classifying spaces for groups with stabilizers in a family with some finiteness properties. The authors do that in this paper for discrete subgroups of the general liner group over real numbers. They illustrate the construction in the case of the integral special linear group \(\mathrm{SL}_3 (\mathbb{Z})\). Since the Farrell-Jones conjecture is known for linear groups, this allows the authors to write down a decomposition of the \(K\)-theory of this group. These explicit computations are consequences of a general theorem for groups with finite dimensional Zariski closure in the general linear group.

Recommendations

• Commensurators and classifying spaces with virtually cyclic stabilizers
• On the classifying space of the family of virtually cyclic subgroups
• Geometric dimension of groups for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups.
• Classifying spaces with virtually cyclic stabilisers for certain infinite cyclic extensions.
• On the finiteness of the classifying space for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups

Cites work

• A spectral sequence in Bredon (co)homology
• Bredon cohomological dimensions for groups acting on CAT(0)-spaces
• Commensurators and classifying spaces with virtually cyclic stabilizers
• Controlled algebraic \(K\)-theory of integral group ring of \(SL(3,\mathbb{Z})\)
• Geometric dimension of groups for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups.
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5657128 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 50185 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1522622 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1377085 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3401201 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2247527 (Why is no real title available?)
• Linear groups of finite cohomological dimension
• On a theorem of Auslander
• On Bredon homology of elementary amenable groups
• On classifying spaces for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups
• On proofs of the Farrell-Jones conjecture
• On the classifying space of the family of virtually cyclic subgroups
• On the domain of the assembly map in algebraic \(K\)-theory
• On the Weak Homological Dimension of the Group Algebra of Solvable Groups
• Relative hyperbolicity, classifying spaces, and lower algebraic \(K\)-theory
• Rigidity of measurable structure for \(\mathbb Z^d\)-actions by automorphisms of a torus
• Small subgroups of SL(3, Z)
• Spaces over a category and assembly maps in isomorphism conjectures in \(K\)- and \(L\)-theory
• Survey on classifying spaces for families of subgroups
• The \(K\)-theoretic Farrell-Jones conjecture for hyperbolic groups
• The Borel conjecture for hyperbolic and CAT(0)-groups
• The cohomology of \(SL_3(Z)\)
• The Farrell-Jones Conjecture for cocompact lattices in virtually connected Lie groups
• The Farrell-Jones conjecture for virtually solvable groups
• The type of the classifying space for a family of subgroups

Cited in

(6)

• Stable homotopy type of the classifying space of virtually torsion-free groups
• On the classifying space for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups for elementary amenable groups
• Complete Bredon cohomology and its applications to hierarchically defined groups
• Linear groups, conjugacy growth, and classifying spaces for families of subgroups
• On classifying spaces for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups
• Commensurators of abelian subgroups and the virtually abelian dimension of mapping class groups

This page was built for publication: Classifying spaces with virtually cyclic stabilizers for linear groups

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2353483)