Cohomology rings of almost-direct products of free groups.

DOI10.1112/S0010437X09004424zbMATH Open1237.20048arXiv0811.1330OpenAlexW3101960196MaRDI QIDQ3552182FDOQ3552182

Authors: Daniel C. Cohen 

Publication date: 13 April 2010

Published in: Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An almost-direct product of free groups is an iterated semidirect product of finitely generated free groups in which the action of the constituent free groups on the homology of one another is trivial. We determine the structure of the cohomology ring of such a group. This is used to analyze the topological complexity of the associated Eilenberg-Mac Lane space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1330

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zbMATH Keywords

topological complexityfinitely generated free groupscohomology ringsEilenberg-MacLane spacesiterated semidirect productsalmost-direct products

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

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