Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Participants
- 1 Lie Methods in Growth of Groups and Groups of Finite Width
- 2 Translation numbers of groups acting on quasiconvex spaces
- 3 On a term rewriting system controlled by sequences of integers
- 4 On certain finite generalized tetrahedron groups
- 5 Efficient computation in word-hyperbolic groups
- 6 Constructing hyperbolic manifolds
- 7 Computing in groups with exponent six
- 8 Rewriting as a special case of non-commutative Gröbner basis theory
- 9 Detecting 3-manifold presentations
- 10 In search of a word with special combinatorial properties
- 11 Cancellation diagrams with non-positive curvature
- 12 Some Applications of Prefix-Rewriting in Monoids, Groups, and Rings
- 13 Verallgemeinerte Biasinvarianten und ihre Berechnung
- 14 On groups which act freely and properly on finite dimensional homotopy spheres
- 15 On Confinal Dynamics of Rooted Tree Automorphisms
- 16 An asymptotic invariant of surface groups
- 17 A cutpoint tree for a continuum
- 18 Generalised triangle groups of type (2, m, 2)
13 - Verallgemeinerte Biasinvarianten und ihre Berechnung
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Participants
- 1 Lie Methods in Growth of Groups and Groups of Finite Width
- 2 Translation numbers of groups acting on quasiconvex spaces
- 3 On a term rewriting system controlled by sequences of integers
- 4 On certain finite generalized tetrahedron groups
- 5 Efficient computation in word-hyperbolic groups
- 6 Constructing hyperbolic manifolds
- 7 Computing in groups with exponent six
- 8 Rewriting as a special case of non-commutative Gröbner basis theory
- 9 Detecting 3-manifold presentations
- 10 In search of a word with special combinatorial properties
- 11 Cancellation diagrams with non-positive curvature
- 12 Some Applications of Prefix-Rewriting in Monoids, Groups, and Rings
- 13 Verallgemeinerte Biasinvarianten und ihre Berechnung
- 14 On groups which act freely and properly on finite dimensional homotopy spheres
- 15 On Confinal Dynamics of Rooted Tree Automorphisms
- 16 An asymptotic invariant of surface groups
- 17 A cutpoint tree for a continuum
- 18 Generalised triangle groups of type (2, m, 2)
Summary
Abstract. The bias-invariant was derived from congruences of the second homology of a 2-complex modulo spherical elements and lead to distinctions of homotopy types in cases where the (abelian) fundamental group and the Euler characteristic coincide.
But, in general, the determination of the second homotopy group and of its image under the Hurewicz map are undecidable. We hence generalize the bias construction to congruences modulo H2-mages of coverings which correspond to characteristic subgroups of the fundamental group.
In the case of the commutator subgroup, we get computable invariants for distinctions of homotopy types, where it may be impossible to calculate the classical bias moduli.
EINLEITUNG
Die Unterscheidung verschiedener Homotopietypen von 2-Komplexen K, L mit gleichem, endlich abelschem π1 und minimaler Eulerscher Charakteristik durch den Unterzeichneten und Sieradski geschah durch ein Kongruenzargument modulo sphärischer Elemente in den 2. Homologiegruppen: Nicht immer gibt es eine (stetige) Abbildung K → L, die in π1 und H2 Isomorphismen induziert (Homologieäquivalenz). Allgemein kann man fragen, wann sich ein Isomorphismus von H2(π1) zu einem geometrisch induzierten Isomorphismus der 2. Homologie der Komplexe hochheben läβt und erhält die sogenannte Biasinvariante (§2), siehe Dyer und Latiolais. Für deren praktische Berechnung entsteht jedoch die Aufgabe, aus den Komplexen, beziehungsweise aus von ihnen abgelesenen π1-Präsentationen, die Untergruppe Σ2 der spharischen Zyklen in H2(K), das heiβt, das π2-Bild zu bestimmen. Tatsächlich liegt hier ein im allgemeinen unentscheidbares Problem vor.
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- Computational and Geometric Aspects of Modern Algebra , pp. 192 - 207Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000