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FINITELY DOMINATED COVERING SPACES OF 3- AND 4-MANIFOLDS

Part of: Topological manifolds Connections with homological algebra and category theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2008

JONATHAN A. HILLMAN
JONATHAN A. HILLMAN*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia (email: jonh@maths.usyd.edu.au)
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Abstract

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If P is a closed 3-manifold the covering space associated to a finitely presentable subgroup ν of infinite index in π1(P) is finitely dominated if and only if P is aspherical or . There is a corresponding result in dimension 4, under further hypotheses on π and ν. In particular, if M is a closed 4-manifold, ν is an ascendant, FP3, finitely-ended subgroup of infinite index in π1(M), π is virtually torsion free and the associated covering space is finitely dominated then either M is aspherical or or S3. In the aspherical case such an ascendant subgroup is usually Z, a surface group or a PD3-group.

Keywords

finitely dominated4-manifoldPoincaré duality groupsubnormal subgroup

MSC classification

Secondary: 57N13: Topology of $E^4$, $4$-manifolds 20J05: Homological methods in group theory
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 84 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 99 - 108
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 Australian Mathematical Society

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