Spheroidal groups, virtual cohomology and lower dimensional G-spaces

DOI10.1007/S40590-016-0137-3MaRDI QIDQ2398322zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William Browder

Publication date 15 August 2017

Published in Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02387

zbMATH Keywords

free group actionsspheroidal groupsvirtual cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cohomology of groups (20J06) Spectral sequences and homology of fiber spaces in algebraic topology (55R20) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Homology and homotopy of topological groups and related structures (57T99)

Abstract: A space is defined to be "$n$-spheroidal" if it has the homotopy type of an $n$-dimensional CW-complex $X$ with $H_n(X,mathbbZ)$ not zero and finitely generated. A group $G$ is called "$n$-spheroidal" if its classifying space $K(G,1)$ is $n$-spheroidal. Examples include fundamental groups of compact manifold $K(G,1)$'s. Moreover, the class of groups $G$ which are $n$-spheroidal for some $n$, is closed under products, free products, and group extensions. If $Y$ is a space with $p{i}_1(Y)$ $n$-spheroidal, and if $H_k(Y;mathbb{F}_p)$ is non-zero and finitely generated, and if $H_i(Y;mathbb{F}_p)=0$ for $i>k$, then $H_{n+k}(overlineY;mathbb{F}_p)eq0$ for $overlineY$ a finite sheeted covering space of $Y$. Hence, dim$(Y)geqn+k$. Thus, it follows that if dim$(Y)<n$, and if $H_k(Y;mathbb{F}_p)eq0$ and $H_i(Y;mathbb{F}_p)=0$ for $i>k>0$, then $H_k(Y;mathbb{F}_p)$ is not finitely generated. Similar results follow for $YsubsetK(G,1)$.

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