Galois Action on Algebraic Matrix Groups, Chern Classes, and the Euler Class.
We consider brave new cochain extensions F(BG +,R) → F(EG +,R), where R is either a Lubin-Tate spectrum E n or the related 2-periodic Morava K-theory K n, and G is a finite group. When R is an Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectrum, in some good cases such an extension is a G-Galois extension in the sense of John Rognes, but not always faithful. We prove that for E n and K n these extensions are always faithful in the K n local category. However, for a cyclic p-group , the cochain extension is not a Galois...
Let G be a compact group and X a G-ANR. Then X is a G-AR iff the H-fixed point set is homotopy trivial for each closed subgroup H ⊂ G.
Significant information about the topology of a bounded domain of a Riemannian manifold is encoded into the properties of the distance, , from the boundary of . We discuss recent results showing the invariance of the singular set of the distance function with respect to the generalized gradient flow of , as well as applications to homotopy equivalence.
We prove that any compact simply connected manifold carrying a structure of Riemannian 3- or 4-symmetric space is formal in the sense of Sullivan. This result generalizes Sullivan's classical theorem on the formality of symmetric spaces, but the proof is of a different nature, since for generalized symmetric spaces techniques based on the Hodge theory do not work. We use the Thomas theory of minimal models of fibrations and the classification of 3- and 4-symmetric spaces.
We study the genus and SNT sets of connective covering spaces of familiar finite CW-complexes, both of rationally elliptic type (e.g. quaternionic projective spaces) and of rationally hyperbolic type (e.g. one-point union of a pair of spheres). In connection with the latter situation, we are led to an independently interesting question in group theory: if f is a homomorphism from Gl(ν,A) to Gl(n,A), ν < n, A = ℤ, resp. , does the image of f have infinite, resp. uncountably infinite, index in...