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Periodic cohomology and subgroups with bounded Bredon cohomological dimension

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2008

JANG HYUN JO
Affiliation:
Research Institute for Basic Science, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea. e-mail: [email protected]
BRITA E. A. NUCINKIS
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ. e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

Mislin and Talelli showed that a torsion-free group in with periodic cohomology after some steps has finite cohomological dimension. In this note we look at similar questions for groups with torsion by considering Bredon cohomology. In particular we show that every elementary amenable group acting freely and properly on some × Sm admits a finite dimensional model for G.

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2008

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