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Group-theoretic conditions under which closed aspherical manifolds are covered by Euclidean space

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Fischer H., Wright D.

Fundamenta Mathematicae

2003

tom 179

nr 3

267-282

Hass, Rubinstein, and Scott showed that every closed aspherical (irreducible) 3-manifold whose fundamental group contains the fundamental group of a closed aspherical surface, is covered by Euclidean space. This theorem does not generalize to higher dimensions. However, we provide geometric tools with which variations of this theorem can be proved in all dimensions.

Generalized universal covering spaces and the shape group

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Fischer H., Zastrow A.

Fundamenta Mathematicae

2007

tom 197

nr 1

167-196

If a paracompact Hausdorff space X admits a (classical) universal covering space, then the natural homomorphism φ: π₁(X) → π̌₁(X) from the fundamental group to its first shape homotopy group is an isomorphism. We present a partial converse to this result: a path-connected topological space X admits a generalized universal covering space if φ: π₁(X) → π̌₁(X) is injective. This generalized notion of universal covering p: X̃ → X enjoys most of the usual properties, with the possible exception of evenly covered neighborhoods: the space X̃ is path-connected, locally path-connected and simply-connected and the continuous surjection p: X̃ → X is universally characterized by the usual general lifting properties. (If X is first countable, then p: X̃ → X is already characterized by the unique lifting of paths and their homotopies.) In particular, the group of covering transformations $G = Aut(X̃ \stackrel{p}{→} X)$ is isomorphic to π₁(X) and it acts freely and transitively on every fiber. If X is locally path-connected, then the quotient X̃/G is homeomorphic to X. If X is Hausdorff or metrizable, then so is X̃, and in the latter case G can be made to act by isometry. If X is path-connected, locally path-connected and semilocally simply-connected, then p: X̃ → X agrees with the classical universal covering. A necessary condition for the standard construction to yield a generalized universal covering is that X be homotopically Hausdorff, which is also sufficient if π₁(X) is countable. Spaces X for which φ: π₁(X) → π̌₁(X) is known to be injective include all subsets of closed surfaces, all 1-dimensional separable metric spaces (which we prove to be covered by topological ℝ-trees), as well as so-called trees of manifolds which arise, for example, as boundaries of certain Coxeter groups. We also obtain generalized regular coverings, relative to some special normal subgroups of π₁(X), and provide the appropriate relative version of being homotopically Hausdorff, along with its corresponding properties.

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2 Fischer H.

1 Wright D.

1 Zastrow A.

1 2007

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Group-theoretic conditions under which closed aspherical manifolds are covered by Euclidean space

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