James bundles

DOI10.1112/S0024611504014674MaRDI QIDQ4812540zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Colin Rourke, Brian J. Sanderson, Roger Andrew Fenn

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, http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/751/1/WRAP_Fenn_James_Bundles.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classcubical setJames bundleJames complexJames-Hopf invariantMahowald orientationracksquare set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

The present paper performs a wide and accurate study of the so called square sets, which are cubical sets without degeneracies, first introduced by the same authors in [Appl. Categ. Struct. 3, No. 4, 321--356 (1995; Zbl 0853.55021)] through the concept of a trunk. In particular, for each square set \(C\), the authors introduce an infinite family of associated square sets \(J^i(C)\), for \(i\in \mathbb N\), which are called James complexes. On the other hand, James complexes \(J^i(C)\) define a sequence of mock bundles with base \(C\), called James bundles, which have a have a strong connection with classical James-Hopf invariants: in fact, they define classes in unstable cohomotopy which generalize classical James-Hopf invariants of \(\Omega(S^2)\). Further, the paper examines the algebra generated by the James classes in stable cohomotopy and in cohomology; natural characteristic classes for a square set are so defined, whose mod 2 reductions are pulled back from both the Stiefel-Whitney and the Wu classes of BO. Finally, the map to BO is used to define the concept of a square-set orientation for a manifold; this leads to a generalized (co)-homology theory, which has a geometric interpretation close to that for Mahowald orientation [see \textit{M. Mahowald}, Duke Math. J. 46, 549--559 (1979; Zbl 0418.55012)] given by the third author in [Algebraic topology, Proc. Symp., Aarhus 1978, Lect. Notes Math. 763, 152--174 (1979; Zbl 0423.57011)].

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