The Bieri–Stallings connectivity-at-infinity conjecture

For each integer n2n\geq 2, let BnB_n be the kernel of the homomorphism

F2××F2ZF_2\times\cdots\times F_2\longrightarrow\mathbb Z

from the nn-fold direct product of F2F_2 sending every generator to 11.

The Bieri–Stallings connectivity-at-infinity conjecture. For n2n\geq 2, the group BnB_n is (n2)(n-2)-connected at infinity.

The source notes that known results imply (n3)(n-3)-connectedness for n4n\geq 4, while the cases B2B_2 and B3B_3 provide evidence for the conjecture. The full assertion remains unresolved in the supplied material.

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Michael Mihalik, “A Manual for Ends, Semistability and Simple Connectivity at Infinity for Groups and Spaces”, arXiv:2507.17060 (2026).

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