Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
A closed aspherical manifold is a closed manifold whose universal covering space is contractible. There is the following conjecture concerning the algebraic K-theory of such manifolds:
Conjecture. Let Γ be the fundamental group of a closed aspherical manifold. Then Whi(Γ) = 0 for i ≥ 0 where Whi(Γ) is the i-th higher Whitehead group of Γ.