A classification of 2-complexes with nontrivial self-covers

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2005.08.001MaRDI QIDQ2498034zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tony Bedenikovic, Mathew Timm, Alberto Luis Delgado

Publication date 4 August 2006

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2005.08.001

zbMATH Keywords

2-complexesannular decompositionnon-cohopfianself-cover

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

Review text

This neatly written paper extends the former results of \textit{M. Timm} [Topology Appl. 111, No. 3, 355--363 (2001; Zbl 0989.57004)]. Theorem 4.2 states that `a finite regular connected 2-complex nontrivially covers itself iff it has a special type of decomposition into finitely many annuli'. Some interesting consequences follow, e.g., such a 2-complex is aspherical, its first homology group contains a \(\mathbb{Z}\) summand, its fundamental group has a finite-index subgroup that is isomorphic to \(\mathbb{Z}\times F\), where \(F\) is a finitely generated free group.

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