scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1444544

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Authors Michael W. Davis

Publication date 17 September 2000

zbMATH Keywords

aspherical manifoldsaspherical spacesfundamental groupshyperbolic groupsnon-positive curvaturereflection groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Poincaré duality spaces (57P10)

Review text

The paper surveys recent developments in the subject of aspherical manifolds and Poincaré duality groups. A manifold is called aspherical if its homotopy groups vanish in dimensions \(>1\). A Poincaré duality group is a group \(\Gamma\) such that the (co)homology of the classifying space \(B\Gamma\) satisfies Poincaré duality. The fundamental groups of closed aspherical manifolds provide examples of Poincaré duality groups. The question of whether or not any Poincaré duality group is the fundamental group of a closed aspherical manifold was one of the most well-known problems in C. T. C. Wall's list of problems in homological group theory. The paper contains the description of author's construction of a counterexample to Wall's conjecture, namely a Poincaré duality group that is not finitely presented. Besides, a host of examples of aspherical manifolds (including hyperbolic manifolds, Riemannian manifolds of non-positive curvature, and Gromov's hyperbolizations of polyhedrons) are described. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0933.00057].

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