Bredon-Poincaré duality groups.

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2014-0029zbMATH Open1328.20070arXiv1311.7629OpenAlexW2962703678MaRDI QIDQ471847FDOQ471847

Authors: Simon St. John-Green 

Publication date: 17 November 2014

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

Abstract: If $G$ is a group which admits a manifold model for $mathrmBG$ then $G$ is a Poincar'e duality group. We study a generalisation of Poincar'e duality groups, introduced initially by Davis and Leary, motivated by groups $G$ with cocompact manifold models $M$ for $underlinemathrmEG$ where $M^H$ is a contractible submanifold for all finite subgroups $H$ of $G$. We give several sources of examples and constructions of these Bredon-Poincar'e duality groups, including using the equivariant reflection group trick of Davis and Leary to construct examples of Bredon-Poincar'e duality groups arising from actions on manifolds $M$ where the dimensions of the submanifolds $M^H$ are specified. We classify Bredon-Poincar'e duality groups in low dimensions, and discuss behaviour under group extensions and graphs of groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.7629

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zbMATH Keywords

Bredon cohomologyPoincaré duality groupsBredon-Poincaré duality groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Poincaré duality spaces (57P10)

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