• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.253-258
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• 1996

Let X be a finite connected CW-complex, $\Gamma = \pi_1(X)$ its fundamental group, $\tilde{X}$ its universal covering space. Then $\Gamma$ acts on $\tilde{X}$ by covering transformations and on the homology group $H_*(\tilde{X})$. In this note we establish the following vanishing result for the Euler characteristic $x(X)$ of X.