Wise's conjecture on non-positive immersions for contractible complexes

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Let XX be a contractible complex. Wise's conjecture. The complex XX has (weak) non-positive immersions. Here, non-positive immersions means that for every immersion YXY\looparrowright X of a compact, connected 2-complex YY, either χ(Y)0\chi(Y)\le 0 or π1Y=1\pi_1 Y=1; weak non-positive immersions means that χ(Y)1\chi(Y)\le 1 for every compact, connected YXY\looparrowright X. The paper's abstract states that it provides examples of contractible complexes failing to have non-positive immersions and weak non-positive immersions, answering Wise's conjecture in the negative.

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William Fisher, “Contractible complexes and non-positive immersions”, arXiv:2210.02304 (2024).

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