Topological realizations of groups in Alexandroff spaces

Abstract

Given a group G, we provide a constructive method to get infinitely many (non-homotopy-equivalent) Alexandroff spaces, such that the group of autohomeomorphisms, the group of homotopy classes of self-homotopy equivalences and the pointed version are isomorphic to G. As a result, any group G can be realized as the group of homotopy classes of self-homotopy equivalences of a topological space X, for which there exists a CW complex K(X) and a weak homotopy equivalence from K(X) to X.