Examples of Poincaré duality groups

Mess, Geoffrey

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1990-1019274-5

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Examples of Poincaré duality groups

Author: Geoffrey Mess
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 110 (1990), 1145-1146
MSC: Primary 20J99; Secondary 57P10, 57S30
MathSciNet review: 1019274
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Abstract: A closed aspherical manifold may have a fundamental group which is not residually finite and contains infinitely divisible elements.

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