On dimensions of groups with cocompact classifying spaces for proper actions

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2017.03.008zbMATH Open1436.20093arXiv1504.02704OpenAlexW1488131197MaRDI QIDQ2400526FDOQ2400526

Authors: Nansen Petrosyan, Ian J. Leary 

Publication date: 29 August 2017

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct groups G that are virtually torsion-free and have virtual cohomological dimension strictly less than the minimal dimension for any model for the classifying space for proper actions of G. They are the first examples that have these properties and also admit cocompact models for this classifying space. We exhibit groups G whose virtual cohomological dimension and Bredon cohomological dimension are two that do not admit any 2-dimensional contractible proper G-CW-complex.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02704

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zbMATH Keywords

compactnesscohomological dimensionCoxeter groupBredon cohomologyclassifying space for proper actionsDavis complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25) Equivariant homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55P91) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

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