The Transfer and James-Hopf Invariants.
By a twisted product of Sⁿ we mean a closed, 1-connected 2n-manifold M whose integral cohomology ring is isomorphic to that of Sⁿ × Sⁿ, n ≥ 3. We list all such spaces that have the fixed point property.
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 -torsion of mapping tori. We examine its behaviour under fibrations.
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.
A proof is given of the fact that the real projective plane has the Wecken property, i.e. for every selfmap , the minimum number of fixed points among all selfmaps homotopic to f is equal to the Nielsen number N(f) of f.
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 associated to any Lie algebroid . 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...