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| | Linnell, P and Schick, T.: Finite group extensions and the Atiyah conjecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | We prove that these conditions are fulfilled for a certain class of groups, which contains in particular Artin's pure braid groups (and more generally fundamental groups of fiber-type arrangements), free groups, fundamental groups of orientable compact surfaces, certain knot and link groups, primitive positive one-relator groups, and products of these. |
 | | In the course of the proof we prove that if these extensions are torsion-free, then they have plenty of non-trivial torsion-free quotients which are virtually nilpotent. |
 | | Finite group extensions and the Baum-Connes conjecture (also on the arXiv), where the Baum-Connes conjecture is proved e.g. |
| www.uni-math.gwdg.de /schick/publ/extAtiyah.html (226 words) |
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