Topological finiteness properties of monoids Part 1: Foundations

Gray, Robert and Steinberg, Benjamin (2022) Topological finiteness properties of monoids Part 1: Foundations. Algebraic & Geometric Topology, 22 (7). pp. 3083-3170. ISSN 1472-2747

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Abstract

We initiate the study of higher-dimensional topological finiteness properties of monoids. This is done by developing the theory of monoids acting on CW complexes. For this we establish the foundations of M –equivariant homotopy theory where M is a discrete monoid. For projective M –CW complexes we prove several fundamental results such as the homotopy extension and lifting property, which we use to prove the M –equivariant Whitehead theorems. We define a left equivariant classifying space as a contractible projective M –CW complex. We prove that such a space is unique up to M –homotopy equivalence and give a canonical model for such a space via the nerve of the right Cayley graph category of the monoid. The topological finiteness conditions left-F n and left geometric dimension are then defined for monoids in terms of existence of a left equivariant classifying space satisfying appropriate finiteness properties. We also introduce the bilateral notion of M –equivariant classifying space, proving uniqueness and giving a canonical model via the nerve of the two-sided Cayley graph category, and we define the associated finiteness properties bi-F n and geometric dimension. We explore the connections between all of the these topological finiteness properties and several well-studied homological finiteness properties of monoids which are important in the theory of string rewriting systems, including FP n, cohomological dimension, and Hochschild cohomological dimension. We also introduce a theory of M –equivariant collapsing schemes which gives new results giving sufficient conditions for a monoid to be of type F 1 (or bi-F 1 ). We identify some families of monoids to which these theorems apply, and in particular provide topological proofs of results of Anick, Squier and Kobayashi that monoids which admit presentations by complete rewriting systems are left-right-and bi-FP 1 . This is the first in a series of three papers proving that all one-relator monoids are of type FP 1, settling a question of Kobayashi from 2000.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Published: 30 January 2023. Funding Information: This work was supported by the EPSRC grant EP/N033353/1 “Special inverse monoids: subgroups, structure, geometry, rewriting systems and the word problem”. Steinberg was supported in part by United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation #2012080 and NSA MSP #H98230-16-1-0047.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	geometry and topology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2600/2608
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Mathematics
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Algebra and Combinatorics Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Logic
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	06 Oct 2021 01:59
Last Modified:	17 May 2023 01:29
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81563
DOI:	10.2140/agt.2022.22.3083

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