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Cohomology of Bieberbach groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Howard Hiller
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Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 10027, USA.

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Recently, Szczepariski [11] has constructed examples of aspherical manifolds with the ℚ-homology of a sphere. More precisely, if k is a commutative ring of characteristic zero containing , the following theorem holds.

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