Model aspherical manifolds with no periodic maps

Homotopically Periodic Maps of Model Aspherical Manifolds

For a closed orientable surface S, any map f : S→S whose n-th power is homotopic to the identity, is homotopic to a homeomorphism g of S of order n. This famous theorem of Nielsen is known to fail in general for aspherical manifolds. In this paper, for model aspherical manifolds M associated to a finitely extendable set of data, we, however, present a weaker version of Nielsen’s result. We show...

Aspherical Manifolds*

This is a survey on known results and open problems about closed aspherical manifolds, i.e., connected closed manifolds whose universal coverings are contractible. Many examples come from certain kinds of non-positive curvature conditions. The property aspherical, which is a purely homotopy theoretical condition, has many striking implications about the geometry and analysis of the manifold or ...

Aspherical Manifolds, Relative Hyperbolicity, Simplicial Volume, and Assembly Maps

This paper contains examples of closed aspherical manifolds obtained as a by-product of recent work by the author [Bel] on the relative strict hyperbolization of polyhedra. The following is proved. (I) Any closed aspherical triangulated n-manifold M with hyperbolic fundamental group is a retract of a closed aspherical triangulated (n+ 1)manifold N with hyperbolic fundamental group. (II) If B1, ...

Survey on Aspherical Manifolds

This is a survey on known results and open problems about closed aspherical manifolds, i.e., connected closed manifolds whose universal coverings are contractible. Many examples come from certain kinds of non-positive curvature conditions. The property aspherical, which is a purely homotopy theoretical condition, implies many striking results about the geometry and analysis of the manifold or i...

Exotic aspherical manifolds