We investigate the mapping class groups of diffeomorphisms fixing a frame at a point for general classes of 3-manifolds. These groups form the equivalent to the groups of large gauge transformations in Yang-Mills theories. They are also isomorphic to the fundamental groups of the spaces of 3-metrics modulo diffeomorphisms, which are the analogues in General Relativity to gauge-orbit spaces in gauge theories.

Let M be a closed orientable manifold of dimension dand ${𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right)$ be the usual cochain algebra on M with coefficients in a fieldk. The Hochschild cohomology of M, $H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);{𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right))$ is a graded commutative and associative algebra. The augmentation map $\epsilon :{𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right)\to 𝑘$ induces a morphism of algebras $I:H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);{𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right))\to H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);𝑘)$. In this paper we produce a chain model for the morphism I. We show that the kernel of I is a nilpotent ideal and that the image of I is contained in the center of $H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);𝑘)$, which is in general quite small. The algebra $H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);{𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right))$ is expected to be isomorphic...

We determine the algebra structure of the Hochschild cohomology of the singular cochain algebra with coefficients in a field on a space whose cohomology is a polynomial algebra. A spectral sequence calculation of the Hochschild cohomology is also described. In particular, when the underlying field is of characteristic two, we determine the associated bigraded Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra structure on the Hochschild cohomology of the singular cochain on a space whose cohomology is an exterior algebra....

The simple topological measures X* on a q-space X are shown to be a superextension of X. Properties inherited from superextensions to topological measures are presented. The homology groups of various subsets of X* are calculated. For a q-space X, X* is shown to be a q-space. The homology of X* when X is the annulus is calculated. The homology of X* when X is a more general genus one space is investigated. In particular, X* for the torus is shown to have a retract homeomorphic to an infinite product...

Certain properties of homotopies of admissible multivalued mappings shall be presented, along with their applications as the tool for examining the acyclicity of a space.

Andreas Zastrow conjectured, and Cannon-Conner-Zastrow proved, that filling one hole in the Sierpiński curve with a disk results in a planar Peano continuum that is not homotopy equivalent to a 1-dimensional set. Zastrow's example is the motivation for this paper, where we characterize those planar Peano continua that are homotopy equivalent to 1-dimensional sets. While many planar Peano continua are not homotopy equivalent to 1-dimensional compacta, we prove that each has fundamental group that...

For the Brown-Peterson spectrum BP at the prime 3, $v_2$ denotes Hazewinkel’s second polynomial generator of $B{P}_{*}$. Let $L_2$ denote the Bousfield localization functor with respect to $v_2^{-1}BP$. A typical example of type one finite spectra is the mod 3 Moore spectrum M. In this paper, we determine the homotopy groups ${\pi }_{*}\left(L_{2}M\wedge X\right)$ for the 8 skeleton X of BP.