On a conjecture of Atiyah
Geometric Topology
2015-06-26 v1 Algebraic Topology
K-Theory and Homology
Abstract
In this note we explain how the computation of the spectrum of the lamplighter group from \cite{Grigorchuk-Zuk(2000)} yields a counterexample to a strong version of the Atiyah conjectures about the range of -Betti numbers of closed manifolds.
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@article{arxiv.math/0009175,
title = {On a conjecture of Atiyah},
author = {R. I. Grigorchuk and P. Linnell and T. Schick and A. Zuk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0009175},
year = {2015}
}
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8 pages, A4 paper