Bredon-Poincare Duality Groups
Abstract
If is a group which admits a manifold model for then is a Poincar\'e duality group. We study a generalisation of Poincar\'e duality groups, introduced initially by Davis and Leary, motivated by groups with cocompact manifold models for where is a contractible submanifold for all finite subgroups of . We give several sources of examples and constructions of these Bredon-Poincar\'e duality groups, including using the equivariant reflection group trick of Davis and Leary to construct examples of Bredon-Poincar\'e duality groups arising from actions on manifolds where the dimensions of the submanifolds are specified. We classify Bredon-Poincar\'e duality groups in low dimensions, and discuss behaviour under group extensions and graphs of groups.
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@article{arxiv.1311.7629,
title = {Bredon-Poincare Duality Groups},
author = {Simon St John-Green},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.7629},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Revised version, added section 4.2; 27 pages, no figures