Homotopy classification of maps into homogeneous spaces

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Authors Sergiy Koshkin

Publication date 18 February 2010

Published in Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0024, http://www.emis.de/journals/JHRS/volumes/2009/n1a16/abstract.htm

zbMATH Keywords

Homogeneous spaceHomotopy classHopf invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of algebraic topology in functional analysis (cohomology, sheaf and bundle theory, etc.) (46M20) Hopf invariants (55Q25) Homology and cohomology of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups (57T15) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30)

Abstract: We give an alternative to Postnikov's homotopy classification of maps from 3-dimensional CW-complexes to homogeneous spaces G/H of Lie groups. It describes homotopy classes in terms of lifts to the group G and is suitable for extending the notion of homotopy to Sobolev maps. This is required for applications to variational problems of mathematical physics.

Review text

The author gives an alternative description of Postnikov's homotopy classification of maps in a particular case. More precisely, let \(M\) be a 3-dimensional CW-complex, \(G/H\) be a compact simply connected homogeneous space and \(b_G\in H^3(G;\pi_3(G))\) be the basic class of \(G\). If \(\varphi: M\to G/H\) is given, we denote by \({\mathcal O}_G=\{\omega^*(b_G)\mid \omega \circ\varphi=\varphi \text{ for } \; \omega: M\to G\}\subset H^3(M;\pi_3(G))\). The main result states as follows: Two maps \(\varphi,\,\psi: M\to G/H\) are homotopic if, and only if, there exists a map \(u: M\to G\) such that \(\psi=u\circ\varphi\) and \(u^*(b_G)\in {\mathcal O}_G\). Moreover, within the homotopy classes of the restriction to the 2-skeleton of \(M\), the homotopy classes are in one-to-one correspondence with the quotient \(H^3(M;\pi_3(G))/{\mathcal O}_G\). Extension of this result to Sobolev maps is done in a different paper.

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