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Matthew Kahle
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Are "most" spaces aspherical?
significantly expanded and rewrote answer, adding several examples and non-examples, and references
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Updated bounds or references for an old Erdős problem –– coloring the plane with multiple forbidden distances?
updated question to include a justification for Erdos's comment that it is easy to see that f grows super-linearly.
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Updated bounds or references for an old Erdős problem –– coloring the plane with multiple forbidden distances?
Thanks aorq, I just realized this too. I'll update my question accordingly.
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Updated bounds or references for an old Erdős problem –– coloring the plane with multiple forbidden distances?
minor edits––clarifying that I really want the asymptotics, and not just small k
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Are "most" spaces aspherical?
HJRW, I think what you suggested is a fine example, and the fundamental groups of our random 2-dimension hypertrees look a bit like random groups (hyperbolic, cohomological dimension 2, etc.). I edited my answer, deleting the suggestion that these are the first example of anything...
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Are "most" spaces aspherical?
took out comment that it was the first example of random spaces that is aspherical, in response to a a comment.
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Is being simply connected very rare?
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