Diagrams and the second homotopy group
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Publication:819554
DOI10.4310/CAG.2005.V13.N4.A7zbMATH Open1096.55008arXivmath/0306088OpenAlexW2963098250MaRDI QIDQ819554FDOQ819554
Publication date: 29 March 2006
Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We use Klyachko's methods [A funny property of sphere and equations over groups, Comm. in Alg. 21 (1993) 2555--2575] (see also Fenn-Rourke, L'Enseignment Math. 42 (1996) 49--74 and math.GR/9810184 and Cohen-Rourke, math.GR/0009101) to prove that, if a 1-cell and a 2-cell are added to a complex with torsion-free fundamental group, and with the 2-cell attached by an amenable t-shape, then pi_2 changes by extension of scalars. It then follows using a result of Bogley and Pride, Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. 35 (1992) 1--39, that the resulting fundamental group is also torsion free. We also prove that the normal closure of the attaching word contains no words of smaller complexity.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306088
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