James bundles

DOI10.1112/S0024611504014674MaRDI QIDQ4812540zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Roger Fenn, Colin Rourke, Brian J. Sanderson

Publication date 23 August 2004

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0301354

zbMATH Keywords

rackcharacteristic classcubical setJames-Hopf invariantJames bundleJames complexMahowald orientationsquare set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Other types of cobordism (57R90)

Abstract: We study cubical sets without degeneracies, which we call square sets. These sets arise naturally in a number of settings and they have a beautiful intrinsic geometry; in particular a square set C has an infinite family of associated square sets J^i(C), i=1,2,..., which we call James complexes. There are mock bundle projections p_i:|J^i(C)|-->|C| (which we call James bundles) defining classes in unstable cohomotopy which generalise the classical James--Hopf invariants of Omega(S^2). The algebra of these classes mimics the algebra of the cohomotopy of Omega(S^2) and the reduction to cohomology defines a sequence of natural characteristic classes for a square set. An associated map to BO leads to a generalised cohomology theory with geometric interpretation similar to that for Mahowald orientation [M Mahowald, Ring Spectra which are Thom complexes, Duke Math. J. 46 (1979) 549--559] and [B Sanderson, The geometry of Mahowald orientations, SLN 763 (1978) 152--174].

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