On groups acting on contractible spaces with stabilizers of prime-power order.

DOI10.1515/JGT.2010.012zbMATH Open1268.20058arXiv0903.1189MaRDI QIDQ3060811FDOQ3060811

Authors: Ian J. Leary, Brita E. A. Nucinkis 

Publication date: 10 December 2010

Published in: Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study actions of discrete groups on contractible topological spaces in which either (1) all stabilizers lie in the family of subgroups of prime power order or (2) all stabilizers lie in the family of finite subgroups. We compare the classifying spaces for actions with stabilizers in these two families, the Kropholler hierarchies build on these two families, and group cohomology relative to these two families.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1189

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zbMATH Keywords

classifying spacesfinite groupsgroup actionsgroup cohomologyclasses of groupsstabilizer groupsfinite-dimensional contractible CW-complexesKropholler hierarchies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite solvable groups, theory of formations, Schunck classes, Fitting classes, (pi)-length, ranks (20D10) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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