On the homotopy classification of maps

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Authors Samson Saneblidze

Publication date 18 February 2010

Published in Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3896, http://www.emis.de/journals/JHRS/volumes/2009/n1a17/abstract.htm

zbMATH Keywords

cohomology homomorphismfunctor Dpolynomial algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop spaces (55P35) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Primary cohomology operations in algebraic topology (55S05) Classification of mappings in algebraic topology (55S37)

Abstract: We establish certain conditions which imply that a map $f:XoY$ of topological spaces is null homotopic when the induced integral cohomology homomorphism is trivial; one of them is: $H^{\ast }(X)$ and $p{i}_{\ast }(Y)$ have no torsion and $H^{\ast }(Y)$ is polynomial.

Review text

Let \(f\) be a map from \(X\) to \(Y\). Suppose that it induces the zero homomorphism in cohomology. The question is then whether or not \(f\) is null homotopic. Of course, in general, it need not be. However, the author shows that under some general conditions, it is true. This means that if we take \(Y\) to be the classifying space of some topological group \(G\), for example, the unitary group \(U(n)\), this gives results on the triviality of \(U(n)\)-principal bundles in terms of Chern classes. The results are established in greater generality.

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