Order complexes of coset posets of finite groups are not contractible
  We show that the order complex of the poset of all cosets of all proper subgroups of a finite group $G$ is never $\mathbb{F}_{2}$-acyclic and therefore never contractible. This settles a question of K. S. Brown. 
John Shareshian and Russ Woodroofe
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