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Coarse Alexander duality for pairs and applications

Geometric Topology 2025-08-20 v3 Algebraic Topology Group Theory

Abstract

For a group GG (of type FF) acting properly on a coarse Poincar\'{e} duality space XX, Kapovich-Kleiner introduced a coarse version of Alexander duality between GG and its complement in XX. More precisely, the cohomology of GG with group ring coefficients is dual to a certain \v{C}ech homology group of the family of increasing neighborhoods of a GG-orbit in XX. This duality applies more generally to coarse embeddings of certain contractible simplicial complexes into coarse PD(n)PD(n) spaces. In this paper we introduce a relative version of this \v{C}ech homology that satisfies the Eilenberg-Steenrod Exactness Axiom, and we prove a relative version of coarse Alexander duality. As an application we provide a detailed proof of the following result, first stated by Kapovich-Kleiner. Given a 22-complex formed by gluing kk halfplanes along their boundary lines and a coarse embedding into a contractible 33-manifold, the complement consists of kk deep components that are arranged cyclically in a pattern called a Jordan cycle. We use the Jordan cycle as an invariant in proving the existence of a 33-manifold group that is virtually Kleinian but not itself Kleinian.

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@article{arxiv.2011.00059,
  title  = {Coarse Alexander duality for pairs and applications},
  author = {G. Christopher Hruska and Emily Stark and Hung Cong Tran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.00059},
  year   = {2025}
}

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v3: 33 pages, 3 figures; minor changes

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