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Farrell cohomology and centralizets of elementary abelian p-subgroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Chun-Nip Lee
Chun-Nip Lee
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Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A.
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Let Γ be a discrete group. Γ is said to have finite virtual cohomological dimension (vcd) if there exists a finite index torsion-free subgroup Γ′ of G such that Γ′ has finite cohomological dimension over ℤ. Examples of such groups include finite groups, fundamental group of a finite graph of finite groups, arithmetic groups, mapping class groups and outer automorphism groups of free groups. One of the fundamental problems in topology is to understand the cohomology of these finite vcd-groups.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 119 , Issue 3 , April 1996 , pp. 403 - 417
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1996

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