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Improved algebraic fibrings
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- We show that a virtually RFRS group $G$ of type $\mathrm{FP}_n(\mathbb{Q})$ virtually algebraically fibres with kernel of type $\mathrm{FP}_n(\mathbb{Q})$ if and only if the first $n$ $\ell^2$-Betti numbers of $G$ vanish, that is, $b_p^{(2)}(G) = 0$ for $0 \leqslant p \leqslant n$. We also offer a variant of this result over other fields, in particular in positive characteristic. As an application of the main result, we show that virtually amenable RFRS groups of type $\mathrm{FP}(\mathbb{Q})$ are polycyclic-by-finite. It then follows that if $G$ is a virtually RFRS group of type $\mathrm{FP}(\mathbb{Q})$ such that $\mathbb{Z}G$ is Noetherian, then $G$ is polycyclic-by-finite. This answers a longstanding conjecture of Baer for virtually RFRS groups of type $\mathrm{FP}(\mathbb{Q})$.<br />Comment: Version accepted for publication at Compositio Mathematica. An addendum (which will appear in the author's thesis, not in the published version of this article) has been added, giving a simple proof that virtually locally indicable groups of finite cohomological dimension satisfy Baer's Conjecture. This was proven in the previous version under the stronger assumptions RFRS and finite type
- Subjects :
- Mathematics - Group Theory
20F65
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2112.00397
- Document Type :
- Working Paper