Examples of Poincare Duality Groups

DOI10.2307/2047770zbMath0709.57025OpenAlexW4252945579MaRDI QIDQ3492424

Geoffrey Mess

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2047770

zbMATH Keywords

Poincaré duality groupsinfinitely divisible rank 1 abelian subgroupsnot residually finite

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

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