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Cup products, lower central series, and holonomy Lie algebras

Geometric Topology 2019-03-06 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We generalize basic results relating the associated graded Lie algebra and the holonomy Lie algebra from finitely presented, commutator-relators groups to arbitrary finitely presented groups. In the process, we give an explicit formula for the cup-product in the cohomology of a finite 2-complex, and an algorithm for computing the corresponding holonomy Lie algebra, using a Magnus expansion method. We illustrate our approach with examples drawn from a variety of group-theoretic and topological contexts, such as link groups, one-relator groups, and fundamental groups of orientable Seifert fibered manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1701.07768,
  title  = {Cup products, lower central series, and holonomy Lie algebras},
  author = {Alexander I. Suciu and He Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.07768},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

27 pages; accepted for publication in the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1504.08294