On a Theorem of Barden.
The behavior of special classes of isometric foldings of the Riemannian sphere under the action of angular conformal deformations is considered. It is shown that within these classes any isometric folding is continuously deformable into the standard spherical isometric folding defined by .
We consider the stable homotopy category S of polyhedra (finite cell complexes). We say that two polyhedra X,Y are in the same genus and write X ∼ Y if X p ≅ Y p for all prime p, where X p denotes the image of Xin the localized category S p. We prove that it is equivalent to the stable isomorphism X∨B 0 ≅Y∨B 0, where B 0 is the wedge of all spheres S n such that π nS(X) is infinite. We also prove that a stable isomorphism X ∨ X ≅ Y ∨ X implies a stable isomorphism X ≅ Y.
We prove that for n > 1 the space of proper maps P 0(n, k) and the space of local maps F 0(n, k) are not homotopy equivalent.
A connection on a principal G-bundle may be identified with a smooth group morphism H : GL∞(M) → G, called a holonomy, where GL∞(M) is a group of equivalence classes of loops on the base M. The present article focuses on the kernel of this morphism, which consists of the classes of loops along which parallel transport is trivial. Use is made of a formula expressing the gauge potential as a suitable derivative of the holonomy, allowing a different proof of a theorem of Lewandowski’s, which states...