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Equivariant Poincar\'e duality for cyclic groups of prime order and the Nielsen realisation problem

Algebraic Topology 2024-09-05 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

In this companion article to [HKK24], we apply the theory of equivariant Poincar\'e duality developed there in the special case of cyclic groups CpC_p of prime order to remove, in a special case, a technical condition given by Davis--L\"uck [DL24] in their work on the Nielsen realisation problem for aspherical manifolds. Along the way, we will also give a complete characterisation of CpC_p--Poincar\'e spaces as well as introduce a genuine equivariant refinement of the classical notion of virtual Poincar\'e duality groups which might be of independent interest.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2409.02220,
  title  = {Equivariant Poincar\'e duality for cyclic groups of prime order and the Nielsen realisation problem},
  author = {Kaif Hilman and Dominik Kirstein and Christian Kremer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.02220},
  year   = {2024}
}

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30 pages. Comments welcome!