The finiteness obstruction for loop spaces (Q1969358)
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The finiteness obstruction for loop spaces (English)
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27 July 2000
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This fine paper is best reviewed by the author's abstract: ``For finitely dominated spaces, Wall constructed a finiteness obstruction, which decides whether a space is equivalent to a finite CW-complex or not. It was conjectured that this finiteness obstruction always vanishes for quasi finite \(H\)-spaces, that are \(H\)-spaces whose homology looks like the homology of a finite CW-complex. In this paper we prove this conjecture for loop spaces. In particular, this shows that every quasi finite loop space is actually homotopy equivalent to a finite CW-complex''.
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Wall obstruction
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loop space
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\(p\)-compact group
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finiteness obstruction
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