Talelli's conjecture on torsion-free groups with periodic cohomology

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Let Γ\Gamma be a group. Its cohomological dimension is

cd(Γ)=sup⁡{n∣Hn(Γ;M)≠0 for some ZΓ-module M}.cd(\Gamma)=\sup\{n\mid H^n(\Gamma;M)\neq 0\text{ for some }\mathbb{Z}\Gamma\text{-module }M\}.

The group Γ\Gamma has periodic cohomology after kk steps if there exists an integer q>0q>0 such that Hi(Γ,−)H^i(\Gamma,-) and Hi+q(Γ,−)H^{i+q}(\Gamma,-) are naturally isomorphic functors for all i>ki>k. Talelli's conjecture. A torsion-free group Γ\Gamma that has periodic cohomology after some steps has finite cohomological dimension. The conjecture is known for the class of LHFLH\mathcal{F}-groups, which includes all linear and all elementary amenable groups; its validity in general remains open.

References

Primary source

Dennis Dreesen and Nansen Petrosyan, “Fiberwise volume decreasing diffeomorphisms on product manifolds”, arXiv:0903.4142 (2009).

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