Surgery on $\widetilde{\mathbb{SL}}\times {\mathbb{E}}^n$-manifolds

J. A. Hillman, S. K. Roushon

We show that although closed $\widetilde{\mathbb{SL}}\times {\mathbb{E}}^n$-manifolds do not admit metrics of nonpositive sectional curvature, the arguments of Farrell and Jones can be exte…