New examples of finitely presented groups with strong fixed point properties

We give an explicit finite presentation of a group normally generated by SL?(?). As a consequence, such a group cannot act on e.g. a finite dimensional contractible manifold or on a compact manifold

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Main Authors: Chatterji, Indira (Author), Kassabov, Martin (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2009-01.
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