K-theory and dynamics. II (Q1116142)

This is the second part of the article [for the first part see ibid. 124, 531-569 (1986; Zbl 0653.58035)] where authors consider weakly admissible manifolds - i.e. manifolds with pinched negative curvature, and admissible manifolds - i.e. weakly admissible manifolds with finite volume. In this part of the article (as in the first one - using the dynamic of unit speed tangent bundle) they calculate the stable topological pseudo-isotopy space \({\mathcal P}(M)\) of an admissible manifold M: It is shown that if M is compact, then \({\mathcal P}(M)\) and \(\bar {\mathcal P}(S^ 1)\) are weakly homotopically equivalent, where \(\bar {\mathcal P}(S^ 1)\) is the direct limit as \(n\to \infty\) of the n-factor Cartesian product \({\mathcal P}(S^ 1)\times...\times {\mathcal P}(S^ 1)\). If M is not compact, \({\mathcal P}(\bar M)\) and \(\bar {\mathcal P}(S')\times {\mathcal P}(\partial \bar M)\) are weakly homotopically equivalent, where \(\bar M\) is a standard compactification of M.