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A homological criterion for the realizability of poly-Surface groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

F. E. A. Johnson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College, London WC1E 6BT

Extract

The Realizability Question for poly-Surface groups consists in asking whether, for any poly-Surface group G, one may find a smooth closed aspherical manifold XG with π1(XG)= G. It seems, on present evidence, that the answer is always ‘yes’ [2][3], although in any one case the details may be quite complicated [4].

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1985

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