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Problem 1.8 from Kirby's list
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I looked through a book called "Problems in Low-Dimensional Topology", where Rob Kirby lists a set of problems. He provides a list of problems, states their conjectures, and ...
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A flatness result of Fiedorwicz for amalgamated free products of monoids in connection with classifying spaces of monoids
In Lemma 5.2(a) of Z. Fiedorowicz, Classifying Spaces of Topological Monoids and Categories American Journal of Mathematics Vol. 106, No. 2 (Apr., 1984), pp. 301-350 the author proves the following.
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Lifting of group homomorphisms
I asked this question a few days ago on math stackexchange but didn't get any answer so I thought I post it here too (see here):
In my first course on algebraic topology I heard about the following:
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Relationship between the cohomology of a group and the cohomology of its associated Lie algebra
Let $G$ be a group and let $k$ be a field (characteristic 0 if you want). Let $L$ be the graded Lie ring associated to the lower central series of $G$, that is, $L$, as a graded abelian group is $\...
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Comparing lower central series and augmentation ideal completions
Let G be a group. Let $G^p$ be the completion of G with respect to the mod p lower central series of G.i.e. $G^p=\varprojlim_{q} G/\gamma_qG$, where $\gamma_qG$ is generated by all $\{[x_1,\cdots,x_s]^...