Weakly bounded cohomology classes and a counterexample to a conjecture of Gromov

DOI10.1007/S00039-024-00676-9MaRDI QIDQ6404418zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dario Ascari, Francesco Milizia

Publication date 8 July 2022

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-024-00676-9

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We exhibit a finitely presented group whose second cohomology contains a weakly bounded, but not bounded, class. As an application, we disprove a long-standing conjecture of Gromov about bounded primitives of differential forms on universal covers of closed manifolds.

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