On Kähler nilmanifolds with top homology in codimension two

Abstract

SupposeGis a connected, complex, nilpotent Lie group and Γ is a discrete subgroup ofGsuch thatG/Γ is Kähler and the top nonvanishing homology group ofG/Γ (with coefficients in ℤ2) is in codimension two or less. We show thatGis then Abelian. We also note that an example from [12] shows that this fails if the top nonvanishing homology is in codimension three.