Timeline for Classifying spaces of finitely presented groups with torsion elements
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| Mar 29, 2017 at 17:40 | comment | added | Ian Agol | Note that there is a version of classifying spaces $\underline{E}G$ where $G$ acts so that compact (i.e. finite) subgroups have (weakly) contractible fixed point sets. Sometimes groups with torsion can have finite-dimensional $\underline{E}G$. ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=1292018 | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 16:09 | vote | accept | aglearner | ||
| Mar 29, 2017 at 16:03 | answer | added | Neil Strickland | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 15:57 | comment | added | Mark Grant | The answer is no, because the presence of torsion forces $\Gamma$ to have infinite cohomological dimension. See e.g. Ken Brown's "Cohomology of groups", Chapter VIII.2. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 15:30 | history | asked | aglearner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |