Aplications of methods of algebraic topology in group theory

Author(s)

Patricia Massae Kitani

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica
• Defense date: 2005-06-29

Examining board members

Dessislava Hristova Kochloukova; Femanda Soares Pinto Cardona; Ketty Abaroa de Rezende

• Advisor: Dessislava Hristova Kochloukova

Abstract

This work consisted of the study of the applications of algebraic topology (covering maps, Van Kampen theorem) in group theory and also, in the detailed study of a result of R. Bieri, R. Strebel [Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 41 (1980), no. 3, 439¿464], that for a group G of type FP2, either G has a free non-cyclic subgroup or for any normal subgroup N C G such that Q = G/N is abelian, N/[N,N] is a tame ZQ-module where Q acts via conjugation. The definition of tame module uses the Bieri-Strebel invariant §A(Q), in this case A = N/[N,N] (AU)