A note on simple duality
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- by James F. Davis and Peter Löffler
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 94 (1985), 343-347
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1985-0784190-9
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Abstract:
Certain spaces satisfying Poincaré duality are shown to have the homotopy type of simple Poincaré complexes. The motivation for and applications of this result are the study of free actions of finite groups on manifolds.References
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Bibliographic Information
- © Copyright 1985 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 94 (1985), 343-347
- MSC: Primary 57P10; Secondary 57Q10, 57Q12, 57S17
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1985-0784190-9
- MathSciNet review: 784190