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The top cohomology class of certain spaces.

Aniceto Murillo (1991)

Extracta Mathematicae

In this abstract we present an explicit formula for a cycle representing the top class of certain elliptic spaces, including the homogeneous spaces. For thet, we shall rely on the connection between Sullivan's theory of minimal models and Rational homotopy theory for which [3], [6] and [10] are standard references.

The universal functorial Lefschetz invariant

Wolfgang Lück (1999)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We introduce the universal functorial Lefschetz invariant for endomorphisms of finite CW-complexes in terms of Grothendieck groups of endomorphisms of finitely generated free modules. It encompasses invariants like Lefschetz number, its generalization to the Lefschetz invariant, Nielsen number and L 2 -torsion of mapping tori. We examine its behaviour under fibrations.

The Vietoris system in strong shape and strong homology

Bernd Günther (1992)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We show that the Vietoris system of a space is isomorphic to a strong expansion of that space in the Steenrod homotopy category, and from this we derive a simple description of strong homology. It is proved that in ZFC strong homology does not have compact supports, and that enforcing compact supports by taking limits leads to a homology functor that does not factor over the strong shape category. For compact Hausdorff spaces strong homology is proved to be isomorphic to Massey's homology.

The Wecken property of the projective plane

Boju Jiang (1999)

Banach Center Publications

A proof is given of the fact that the real projective plane P 2 has the Wecken property, i.e. for every selfmap f : P 2 P 2 , the minimum number of fixed points among all selfmaps homotopic to f is equal to the Nielsen number N(f) of f.

The Weil algebra and the Van Est isomorphism

Camilo Arias Abad, Marius Crainic (2011)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

This paper belongs to a series of papers devoted to the study of the cohomology of classifying spaces. Generalizing the Weil algebra of a Lie algebra and Kalkman’s BRST model, here we introduce the Weil algebra W ( A ) associated to any Lie algebroid A . We then show that this Weil algebra is related to the Bott-Shulman complex (computing the cohomology of the classifying space) via a Van Est map and we prove a Van Est isomorphism theorem. As application, we generalize and find a simpler more conceptual...

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