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Higher dimensions

Proper $ 3$ -realizability can be alternetively described as follows: a group $ G$ of type $ F_2$ for which the $ 2$ -skeleton of the universal cover of a $ K(G,1)$ is proper homotopy equivalent to a $ 3$ -manifold. Similarly, we may say that a $ F_n$ group $ G$ is proper $ 2n-1$ -realizable, $ P(2n-1)R$ for short, if the $ n$ -skeleton of the universal cover of a $ K(G,1)$ is properly homotopy equivalent to a $ 2n-1$ -manifold. As in the $ 3$ -dimensional case, the embedding theorems [J.R65],[DR93] and [CFLQ03] only ensure proper homotopy equivalence to $ 2n$ -manifolds. We ask ourselves which kind of algebraic properties consecuences has this property on $ G$ and when, for which $ n$ , this property becomes trivial.



olmy 2006-01-29