Poincare duality group

ID: poincare-duality-group

A Poincare duality group of dimension has a finite-length resolution of the trivial group ring module by finitely generated projective modules, and vanishes except in degree , where it is infinite cyclic as an abelian group. The top module can have an orientation-sign action. Reversing the dual projective resolution gives , equivalently with the appropriate diagonal action. Untwisted duality requires trivial orientation action. In positive dimension , since a finitely supported invariant element cannot exist for an infinite group.

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