Poincaré duality groups

Abstract:

It is a classical fact that a Poincaré duality group, in dimension two, is a surface group. In this talk I will discuss a relatively short new proof of this.

This is joint work with Peter Kropholler.

algebraic topologydifferential geometrydynamical systemsgroup theorygeometric topologysymplectic geometry

Audience: researchers in the topic

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