Quasirationality and Aspherical (Pro-p-) Presentations

Finite Presentations of Pro-p and Discrete Groups

P&G Oral Presentations

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 ...

Character degrees of p-groups and pro-p groups

In the 1970s, Isaacs conjectured that there should be a logarithmic bound for the length of solvability of a p-group G with respect to the number of different irreducible character degrees of G. So far, there are just a few partial results for this conjecture. In this note, we say that a pro-p group G has property (I) if there is a real number D = D(G) that just depends on G such that for any o...

DETECTING PRO - p - GROUPS 3

Let p be a prime. It is a fundamental problem to classify the absolute Galois groups GF of fields F containing a primitive pth root of unity. In this paper we present several constraints on such GF , using restrictions on the cohomology of index p normal subgroups from [LMS]. In section 1 we classify all maximal p-elementary abelian-by-order p quotients of these GF . In the case p > 2, each suc...