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Minimal 4-manifolds for groups of cohomological dimension 2
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
Abstract
We show that if π is a group with a finite 2-dimensional Eilenberg-Mac Lane complex then the minimum of the Euler characteristics of closed 4-manifolds with fundamental group π is 2χ(K(π, 1)). If moreover M is such a manifold realizing this minimum then π2(M) ≅ Similarly, if π is a PD3-group and w1(M) is the canonical orientation character of π then χ(M)≧l and π2(M) is stably isomorphic to the augmentation ideal of Z[π].
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- Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , October 1994 , pp. 455 - 461
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- Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1994
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