The Bieri–Stallings connectivity-at-infinity conjecture

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

F2×⋯×F2⟶ZF_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 n≥2n\geq 2, the group BnB_n is (n−2)(n-2)-connected at infinity.

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

References

Primary source

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

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