Volume 20, issue 2 (2020)

Download this article
Download this article For screen
For printing
Recent Issues

Volume 24
Issue 2, 595–1223
Issue 1, 1–594

Volume 23, 9 issues

Volume 22, 8 issues

Volume 21, 7 issues

Volume 20, 7 issues

Volume 19, 7 issues

Volume 18, 7 issues

Volume 17, 6 issues

Volume 16, 6 issues

Volume 15, 6 issues

Volume 14, 6 issues

Volume 13, 6 issues

Volume 12, 4 issues

Volume 11, 5 issues

Volume 10, 4 issues

Volume 9, 4 issues

Volume 8, 4 issues

Volume 7, 4 issues

Volume 6, 5 issues

Volume 5, 4 issues

Volume 4, 2 issues

Volume 3, 2 issues

Volume 2, 2 issues

Volume 1, 2 issues

The Journal
About the Journal
Editorial Board
Editorial Interests
Subscriptions
 
Submission Guidelines
Submission Page
Policies for Authors
Ethics Statement
 
ISSN (electronic): 1472-2739
ISSN (print): 1472-2747
Author Index
To Appear
 
Other MSP Journals
This article is available for purchase or by subscription. See below.
Topological properties of spaces admitting a coaxial homeomorphism

Ross Geoghegan, Craig Guilbault and Michael Mihalik

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 20 (2020) 601–642
Abstract

Wright (1992) showed that, if a 1–ended, simply connected, locally compact ANR Y with pro-monomorphic fundamental group at infinity (ie representable by an inverse sequence of monomorphisms) admits a –action by covering transformations, then that fundamental group at infinity can be represented by an inverse sequence of finitely generated free groups. Geoghegan and Guilbault (2012) strengthened that result, proving that Y also satisfies the crucial semistability condition (ie representable by an inverse sequence of epimorphisms).

Here we get a stronger theorem with weaker hypotheses. We drop the “pro-monomorphic hypothesis” and simply assume that the –action is generated by what we call a “coaxial” homeomorphism. In the pro-monomorphic case every –action by covering transformations is generated by a coaxial homeomorphism, but coaxials occur in far greater generality (often embedded in a cocompact action). When the generator is coaxial, we obtain the sharp conclusion: Y is proper 2–equivalent to the product of a locally finite tree with . Even in the pro-monomorphic case this is new: it says that, from the viewpoint of the fundamental group at infinity, the “end” of Y looks like the suspension of a totally disconnected compact set.

PDF Access Denied

We have not been able to recognize your IP address 3.147.42.168 as that of a subscriber to this journal.
Online access to the content of recent issues is by subscription, or purchase of single articles.

Please contact your institution's librarian suggesting a subscription, for example by using our journal-recom­mendation form. Or, visit our subscription page for instructions on purchasing a subscription.

You may also contact us at contact@msp.org
or by using our contact form.

Or, you may purchase this single article for USD 40.00:

Keywords
coaxial homeomorphism, semistability, fundamental group at infinity
Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 20F65, 57M07, 57S30
Secondary: 57M10
References
Publication
Received: 29 October 2017
Revised: 19 October 2018
Accepted: 14 March 2019
Published: 23 April 2020
Authors
Ross Geoghegan
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY
United States
Craig Guilbault
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
United States
Michael Mihalik
Department of Mathematics
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
United States