Quasi-commutative cochain algebras and algebraic fibrations (Q1380055)

Roughly speaking, this paper can be viewed as a (succesful) attempt of extending the ideas of rational homotopy theory to study \(\text{Mod} p\) invariants of topological spaces. K. Hess and N. Dupont defined the concept of twisted extension, the \(\text{Mod }p\) and non commutative analogue of the notion of KS-extension in rational homotopy, which is the algebraic version of a fibration. While any morphism of commutative differential graded algebras (cdga) admits a KS-extension, not every morphism of dgas has a twisted extension. The author introduced the category of quasi-commutative differential graded algebras and proved that every morphism of this category is an algebraic fibration, i.e. it admits a twisted extension. The author proves that this category includes all the morphisms arising from the topological setting: For any space \(X\), the normalized singular cochain algebra on \(X\), \(C^*(X)\), is quasi-commutative, and for every continuous map \(f:X\rightarrow Y\), the induced morphism \(C^*(f):C^*(Y)\rightarrow C^*(X)\) is a morphism of quasi-commutative dgas. It might be helpful to remark that the notion of quasi-commutativity introduced here is different, in principle, from that of M.Vigué who studied filtered dgas whose induced spectral sequences become commutative algebras at some stage.