A counterexample to Wall's finite D(2) problem

Claimed, not checked 1 paper October 6, 2026
What the paper claims, in its own words

Constructs a finite connected three-dimensional CW complex whose universal cover has no integral homology above degree two and whose third cohomology vanishes for every local coefficient module, but which has no finite two-dimensional homotopy model. This disproves Wall's finite D(2) conjecture; the example has infinite fundamental group.

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