Quasi-projective and relative cohomological dimension of groups

Alonso, Juan M.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1991-0991957-8

Quasi-projective and relative cohomological dimension of groups
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Abstract:

We give a geometric interpretation of the quasi-projective dimension of groups, a notion introduced by Howie and Schneebeli [H-S1] as a generalization of the Identity Property.

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Homological group theory