Dimension invariants for groups admitting a cocompact model for proper actions

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2014-0061MaRDI QIDQ346749zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dieter Degrijse, Conchita Martínez-Pérez

Publication date 30 November 2016

Published in Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6419

zbMATH Keywords

classifying spacescohomological dimensionCoxeter groupsdiscrete infinite groupsgeometric dimensionvirtually torsion-free groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Chain complexes (category-theoretic aspects), dg categories (18G35) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a group that admits a cocompact classifying space for proper actions $X$. We derive a formula for the Bredon cohomological dimension for proper actions of $G$ in terms of the relative cohomology with compact support of certain pairs of subcomplexes of $X$. We use this formula to compute the Bredon cohomological dimension for proper actions of fundamental groups of non-positively curved simple complexes of finite groups. As an application we show that if a virtually torsion-free group acts properly and chamber transitively on a building, its virtual cohomological dimension coincides with its Bredon cohomological dimension. This covers the case of Coxeter groups and graph products of finite groups.

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