Atiyah's integrality conjecture for L2L^2-Betti numbers

Let XX be a finite connected CW-complex with fundamental group Γ\Gamma. If Γ\Gamma is torsion-free, then its jj-th L2L^2-Betti number bj(2)(X)b_j^{(2)}(X) is an integer.

Atiyah's integrality conjecture.

bj(2)(X)Z.b_j^{(2)}(X)\in\mathbb{Z}.

The conjecture is known for certain classes of torsion-free groups, but remains open in general. It motivates the question of when the analogous pp-adic Betti numbers are integral.

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Primary source

Steffen Kionke, “On p-adic limits of topological invariants”, arXiv:1811.00356 (2018).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (1998–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/9807032.

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