Chain duality for categories over complexes

DOI10.4171/EMSS/65MaRDI QIDQ6190461zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 6 February 2024

Published in EMS Surveys in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01946

zbMATH Keywords

\(K\)-dissection\(L\)-theoryassemblychain dualitycontrolled surgerydual cell decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67)

Abstract: We show that the additive category of chain complexes parametrized by a finite simplicial complex $K$ forms a category with chain duality. This fact, never fully proven in the original reference, is fundamental for Ranicki's algebraic formulation of the surgery exact sequence of Sullivan and Wall, and his interpretation of the surgery obstruction map as the passage from local Poincar'e duality to global Poincar'e duality. Our paper also gives a new, conceptual, and geometric treatment of chain duality on $K$-based chain complexes.

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Summary: We show that the additive category of chain complexes parametrized by a finite simplicial complex \(K\) forms a category with chain duality. This fact, never fully proven in the original reference (Ranicki, 1992), is fundamental for Ranicki's algebraic formulation of the surgery exact sequence of Sullivan and Wall, and his interpretation of the surgery obstruction map as the passage from local Poincaré duality to global Poincaré duality. Our paper also gives a new, conceptual, and geometric treatment of chain duality on \(K\)-based chain complexes.

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