Almost flat bundles and almost flat structures

DOI10.12775/TMNA.2005.025MaRDI QIDQ812897zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. S. Mishchenko, Nicolae Teleman

Publication date 26 January 2006

Published in Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.12775/tmna.2005.025

zbMATH Keywords

almost flat bundleclassifying spacehigher signaturequasi-connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery obstructions ((K)-theoretic aspects) (19J25) Index theory (19K56) Connective (K)-theory, cobordism (19L41) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Topological (K)-theory (55N15) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65)

Review text

The Novikov conjecture asserts that, for \(M\) a closed oriented \(n\)-manifold with \(\pi_1 M= G\), \(f: M \to BG\) the classifying map, and \(x \in H^{n -4i} (M, Q)\), \(\langle f^* x \cup L_i M, [M] \rangle\) is a homotopy invariant. A proof of this conjecture for a large class of groups was given by \textit{A. Connes, M. Gromov} and \textit{H. Moscovici} [C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I 310, 273--277 (1990; Zbl 0693.53007)] using \(K\)-cohomology and the notion of an almost flat bundle on a manifold. The paper under review gives an alternative definition of flat bundle which extends to bundles over \(CW\)-complexes. The main tool used is the notion of a quasi-connection, previously defined by the second author. As an application it is shown that an almost flat bundle, \(\alpha\) over \(M\) comes from an arbitrarily large compact subset of \(B \pi_1(M)\) via the classifying map, \(f\). Previously it was only known that some integer multiple of \(\alpha\) has that property.

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