Problems from topology about geometric groups
by
Frank Quinn
Virginia Tech

I'll describe some problems from topology that suggest interesting questions about geometric constructions with groups. The topological problems involve surgery and K groups, and Novikov and Borel conjectures. The group questions include refinements (possibly "quantum" or "noncommutative") of the boundary of a group, ways of filling in the boundary, and boundaries that are homology manifolds but not manifolds.

Date received: September 12, 2004