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Small non-Leighton two-complexes

Geometric Topology 2023-02-14 v4 Combinatorics Group Theory

Abstract

How many two-cells must two finite CW-complexes have to admit a common, but not finite common, covering? Leighton's theorem says that both complexes must have two-cells. We construct an almost (?) minimal example with two two-cells in each complex.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2108.01398,
  title  = {Small non-Leighton two-complexes},
  author = {Natalia S. Dergacheva and Anton A. Klyachko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.01398},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

5 pages. A Russian version of this paper is at http://halgebra.math.msu.su/staff/klyachko/papers.htm . V.4: Some details were added

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