Van Kampen's embedding obstruction for discrete groups
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v1 Group Theory
Abstract
We give a lower bound to the dimension of a contractible manifold on which a given group can act properly discontinuously. In particular, we show that the -fold product of nonabelian free groups cannot act properly discontinuously on .
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@article{arxiv.math/0010141,
title = {Van Kampen's embedding obstruction for discrete groups},
author = {Mladen Bestvina and Michael Kapovich and Bruce Kleiner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0010141},
year = {2007}
}
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20 pages