A few topological problems
Given some geometric bounds for the base space and the fibres, there is a finite number of conjugacy classes of Riemannian submersions between compact Riemannian manifolds.
Sullivan associated a uniquely determined to any simply connected simplicial complex . This algebra (called minimal model) contains the total (and exactly) rational homotopy information of the space . In case is the total space of a principal -bundle, ( is a compact connected Lie-group) we associate a -equivariant model , which is a collection of “-homotopic” ’s with -action. will, in general, be different from the Sullivan’s minimal model of the space . contains the total rational...
We prove that an Artin-Tits group of type is the group of fractions of a Garside monoid, analogous to the known dual monoids associated with Artin-Tits groups of spherical type and obtained by the “generated group” method. This answers, in this particular case, a general question on Artin-Tits groups, gives a new presentation of an Artin-Tits group of type , and has consequences for the word problem, the computation of some centralizers or the triviality of the center. A key point of the proof...
An approach to construction of topological invariants of the Reshetikhin-Turaev-Witten type of 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds in the framework of SU(2) Chern-Simons gauge theory and its hidden (quantum) gauge symmetry is presented.