The cellular structure of the classifying spaces of finite groups

DOI10.1007/S11856-011-0062-0MaRDI QIDQ1758903zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard M. Foote, Ramón Flores

Publication date 19 November 2012

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4116

zbMATH Keywords

cellularizationclassifying spacesfinite groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special subgroups (Frattini, Fitting, etc.) (20D25) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35)

Abstract: In this paper we complete the description of the $BmathbbZ/p$-cellularization of the classifying spaces of all finite groups, for all primes $p$. The techniques are based in a careful analysis of the $p$-fusion structure of the groups involved -with special attention to their strongly closed subgroups- and Chach'olski's description of the $A$-cellular approximation.

Review text

The primary result of this paper is a description of the \(B\mathbb{Z}/p\)-cellularization of the classifying space \(BG\), for any finite group \(G\) (and prime \(p\)). The \(B\mathbb{Z}/p\)-cellularization of a topological space is a homotopy approximation, analogous to the usual cellular approximation, but with suspensions of \(B\mathbb{Z}/p\) replacing spheres (see [\textit{E. Dror Farjoun}, Cellular spaces, null spaces and homotopy localization. Berlin: Springer (1995; Zbl 0842.55001); \textit{W. Chachólski}, Duke Math. J. 84, No. 3, 599--631 (1996; Zbl 0873.55014)]). Let \(\Omega_1(G)\) denote the subgroup of \(G\) generated by elements of order \(p\). Since the \(B\mathbb{Z}/p\)-cellularizations of \(BG\) and \(B\Omega_1(G)\) are homotopy equivalent, it is sufficient to restrict to groups generated by elements of order \(p\). Under this hypothesis, the \(B\mathbb{Z}/p\)-cellularization of \(BG\) is the homotopy fibre of a natural map from \(BG\) into a product of completions of classifying spaces, \(B\Gamma_p^{\wedge}\times\prod_{q\not=p}BG_q^{\wedge}\). The definition of \(\Gamma\) requires a few preliminary definitions. Let \(S\) denote a Sylow \(p\)-subgroup of \(G\) and let \(A\) denote the minimal strongly closed subgroup of \(S\) containing all elements of order \(p\) in \(S\). Then \(\mathcal{O}_A(G)\) is the largest normal subgroup \(N\) of \(G\) for which \(N\cap A\) is a Sylow \(p\)-subgroup of \(N\). Let \(\rho\) denote the quotient map from \(G\) to \(G/\mathcal{O}_A(G)\). The group \(\Gamma\) is the quotient of the normaliser \(N_{\rho(G)}(\rho(A))/\rho(A)\). The final section of the paper gives a number of interesting examples.

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