English

Weakly bounded cohomology classes and a counterexample to a conjecture of Gromov

Group Theory 2024-07-08 v2

Abstract

We exhibit a finitely presented group whose second cohomology contains a weakly bounded, but not bounded, class. As an application, we disprove a long-standing conjecture of Gromov about bounded primitives of differential forms on universal covers of closed manifolds.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2207.03972,
  title  = {Weakly bounded cohomology classes and a counterexample to a conjecture of Gromov},
  author = {Dario Ascari and Francesco Milizia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.03972},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

21 pages, 9 figures. This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review, in GAFA, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections