Finite aspherical complexes with infinitely-generated groups of self-homotopy-equivalences

McCullough, Darryl

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1980-0577770-2

Finite aspherical complexes with infinitely-generated groups of self-homotopy-equivalences
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by Darryl McCullough

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 80 (1980), 337-340

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1980-0577770-2

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Abstract:

A finite aspherical complex X is constructed whose group of homotopy classes of basepoint-preserving self-homotopy-equivalences is infinitely generated.

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