The geography problem for 4-manifolds with specified fundamental group

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04649-2zbMath1177.57020arXivmath/0608103OpenAlexW1992553872MaRDI QIDQ5322886

Charles Livingston, Paul A. Kirk

Publication date: 23 July 2009

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608103

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupfour-manifoldgeographyHausmann-Weinberger invariantminimal Euler characteristic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

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