Product rigidity (Ex)
From Manifold Atlas
Let
be a group satisfying the Full Farrell-Jones Conjecture.
Let
be a closed aspherical manifold with fundamental group
.
Suppose that
, where the cohomological dimension of both
and
is different from
and
. Show that
is homeomorphic to a product
of two closed aspherical manifolds with
for
.
Hint: Use the fact that
and
are Poincaré duality groups, if
is a Poincar\'e duality group.