Integral and rational mapping classes

DOI10.1215/00127094-2020-0012MaRDI QIDQ6297830arXivFDO

Authors Fedor Manin, Shmuel Weinberger

Publication date 15 February 2018

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1215/00127094-2020-0012

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Rational homotopy theory (55P62)

arXiv classification

math.ATmath.DG

Abstract: Let $X$ and $Y$ be finite complexes. When $Y$ is a nilpotent space, it has a rationalization $Yo{Y}_{(0)}$ which is well-understood. Early on it was found that the induced map $[X,Y]o[X,Y_{(0)}]$ on sets of mapping classes is finite-to-one. The sizes of the preimages need not be bounded; we show, however, that as the complexity (in a suitable sense) of a rational mapping class increases, these sizes are at most polynomial. This ``torsion information about $[X,Y]$ is in some sense orthogonal to rational homotopy theory but is nevertheless an invariant of the rational homotopy type of $Y$ in at least some cases. The notion of complexity is geometric and we also prove a conjecture of Gromov cite{GrMS} regarding the number of mapping classes that have Lipschitz constant at most $L$.

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