Group actions on contractible $2$-complexes II
Algebraic Topology
2025-08-22 v2 Group Theory
Representation Theory
Abstract
In this second part we prove that, if is one of the groups with and or , then the fundamental group of every acyclic -dimensional, fixed point free and finite -complex admits a nontrivial representation in a unitary group . This completes the proof of the following result: every action of a finite group on a finite and contractible -complex has a fixed point.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.11459,
title = {Group actions on contractible $2$-complexes II},
author = {Kevin Ivan Piterman and Iván Sadofschi Costa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.11459},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
To appear in Inventiones mathematicae