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  5. 2026

Geometric Topology

Icon: calendar GeoTop Session #2.1 | 2026 Mar 11 from 03:40PM to 04:10PM (Central Time (US & Canada)) | Heritage Hall Building 126

Subevent of GeoTop Session #2

‟Universal coefficients and Novikov homology” by Kevin Schreve <kschreve@lsu.edu>, Louisiana State University

Abstract:

Kielak and Fisher have connected the $L^2$-Betti numbers (and their finite field variants) to the Novikov homology for a RFRS group $G$. This in turn relates vanishing of $F$-$L^2$-Betti numbers of $G$ to algebraic virtual fibering of $G$. We will give an example of a RFRS group $G$ which has vanishing top-dimensional Novikov cohomology with all field coefficients but not with $\mathbb{Z}$-coefficients.