We show that the second group of cohomology with compact supports is nontrivial for three-dimensional systolic pseudomanifolds. It follows that groups acting geometrically on such spaces are not Poincaré duality groups.
@article{bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-cm135-1-8, author = {Roger G\'omez-Ortells}, title = {Compactly supported cohomology of systolic 3-pseudomanifolds}, journal = {Colloquium Mathematicae}, volume = {135}, year = {2014}, pages = {103-112}, zbl = {1335.20041}, language = {en}, url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-cm135-1-8} }
Roger Gómez-Ortells. Compactly supported cohomology of systolic 3-pseudomanifolds. Colloquium Mathematicae, Tome 135 (2014) pp. 103-112. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-cm135-1-8/