Closed Aspherical Manifolds with Center
classification
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asphericalcenterclosedmanifoldsactionsborelcircleclassical
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We show that in all dimensions >7 there are closed aspherical manifolds whose fundamental groups have nontrivial center but do not possess any topological circle actions. This disproves a conjectured converse (proposed by Conner and Raymond) to a classical theorem of Borel.
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