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Lifting relations in right orderable groups

Group Theory 2024-12-24 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

In this article we study the following problem: given a chain complex AA_* of free ZG\mathbb{Z}G-modules, when is AA_* isomorphic to the cellular chain complex of some simply connected GG-CW-complex? Such a chain complex is called realisable. Wall studied this problem in the 60's and reduced it to a problem involving only the second differential d2d_2, now known as the relation lifting problem. We show that if GG is right orderable and d2d_2 is given by a matrix of a certain form, then AA_* is realisable. As a special case, we solve the relation lifting problem for right orderable groups with cyclic relation module.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2412.17057,
  title  = {Lifting relations in right orderable groups},
  author = {Marco Linton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17057},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

29 pages, comments welcome

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