Novikov-Betti numbers and the fundamental group
classification
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fundamentalgroupnovikov-betticontainsfirstfreeimpliesnonabelian
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We prove that nonvanishing of the first Novikov-Betti number implies that the fundamental group contains a nonabelian free subgroup.
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