Non-coherence conjecture for poly-free and poly-surface groups

Let GG be a poly-free group or a poly-surface group of length nn with nonvanishing Euler characteristic. For an integer mm, the group GG is mm-coherent if every finitely generated subgroup of GG has finitely generated homology in degrees at most mm.

Non-coherence conjecture. For all 0mn10 \leq m \leq n-1, GG is not mm-coherent.

This conjecture generalizes the preceding obstruction results for algebraically fibered poly-free groups. It predicts that the excessive-homology assumption used there is unnecessary for poly-free and poly-surface groups, while the source indicates that proving the statement could be challenging.

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Dessislava H. Kochloukova and Stefano Vidussi, “Finiteness properties of algebraic fibers of group extensions”, arXiv:2404.01447 (2024).

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