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Cohomology of Bieberbach groups

Part of: Homology and homotopy of topological groups and related structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Howard Hiller
Howard Hiller
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 10027, USA.
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Extract

Recently, Szczepariski [11] has constructed examples of aspherical manifolds with the ℚ-homology of a sphere. More precisely, if k is a commutative ring of characteristic zero containing , the following theorem holds.

MSC classification

Secondary: 57T15: Homology and cohomology of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups
Type
Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , June 1985 , pp. 55 - 59
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1985

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