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On Wh3 of a Bieberbach group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Andrew J. Nicas
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254

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A closed aspherical manifold is a closed manifold whose universal covering space is contractible. There is the following conjecture concerning the algebraic K-theory of such manifolds:

Conjecture. Let Γ be the fundamental group of a closed aspherical manifold. Then Whi(Γ) = 0 for i ≥ 0 where Whi(Γ) is the i-th higher Whitehead group of Γ.

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1984

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