Finitely presented groups and the Whitehead nightmare

DOI10.4171/GGD/397MaRDI QIDQ2357412zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Daniele Ettore Otera, Valentin Poénaru

Publication date 13 June 2017

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2363

zbMATH Keywords

filtrationsfinitely presented groupsquasi-simpleweak geometric simple connectivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10) Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35)

Abstract: We define a `nice representation' of a finitely presented group G as being a non-degenerate essentially surjective simplicial map f from a `nice' space X into a 3-complex associated to a presentation of G, with a strong control over the singularities of f, and such that X is WGSC (weakly geometrically simply connected), meaning that it admits a filtration by simply connected and compact subcomplexes. In this paper we study such representations for a very large class of groups, namely QSF (quasi-simply filtered) groups, where QSF is a topological tameness condition of groups that is similar, but weaker, than WGSC. In particular, we prove that any QSF group admits a WGSC representation which is locally finite, equivariant and whose double point set is closed.

Review text

A smooth compact manifold \(M\) is called \textit{weakly geometrically simply connected} (WGSC) if it admits a filtration by compact and simply connected manifolds. A finitely presented group \(G\) is called \textit{quasi-simply filtered} (QSF) if and only if there exists a smooth compact manifold \(M\) with \(\pi_1 (M)=G\) whose universal cover is WGSC. In this paper certain representations of QSF groups are studied. These representations are non-degenerate essentially surjective simplicial maps from a WGSC space \(X\) into a 3-complex associated to a finite presentation of a QSF group. In particular it is shown that any QSF group admits a WGSC representation which is locally finite, equivariant and whose double point set is closed.

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