JournalsggdVol. 9, No. 1pp. 325–329

Thompson's group is not SCY

  • Stefan Friedl

    Universität Regensburg, Germany

  • Stefano Vidussi

    University of California, Riverside, United States
Thompson's group $F$ is not SCY cover
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Abstract

In this note we prove that Thompson's group cannot be the fundamental group of a symplectic 4-manifold with canonical class by showing that its Hausmann–Weinberger invariant is strictly positive.

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Stefan Friedl, Stefano Vidussi, Thompson's group is not SCY. Groups Geom. Dyn. 9 (2015), no. 1, pp. 325–329

DOI 10.4171/GGD/315