On uniqueness of characteristic classes

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2010.08.006MaRDI QIDQ531328zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Elisenda Feliu

Publication date 29 April 2011

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606244

zbMATH Keywords

\(K\)-theoryAdams operationsBeilinson regulatorChern characterChern classesexterior power operationsgeneralized cohomology theoryhomotopy category of simplicial sheavessimplicial model category

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Algebraic (K)-theory of spaces (19D10) Relations of (K)-theory with cohomology theories (19E20)

Abstract: We give an axiomatic characterization of maps from algebraic K-theory. The results apply to a class of maps from algebraic K-theory to any suitable cohomology theory or to algebraic K-theory, which includes all group morphisms. In particular, we obtain comparison theorems for the Chern character and Chern classes and for the Lambda and Adams operations on higher algebraic K-theory. We show that the Adams operations defined by Grayson agree with the ones defined by Gillet and Soule.

Review text

The paper gives an axiomatic characterization of functorial maps from the algebraic \(K\)-groups of a scheme to either algebraic \(K\)-groups or to suitable cohomology theories. When applied to maps such as Adams operations, \(\lambda\)-operations, Chern classes, Chern characters or regulator maps, this characterization shows in a streamlined way that different constructions of these maps given by various authors (Gillet/Soulé, Grayson, Burgos/Wang, Goncharov, Beilinson, Burgos/Feliu, etc.) indeed define the same maps. The author's characterization relies on \textit{H. Gillet}'s and \textit{C. Soulé}'s interpretation of \(K\)-theory as a generalized cohomology theory [Proc.\ Symp.\ Pure Math.~67, 89--148 (1999; Zbl 0951.19003)]. The main idea is that any functorial map as above is characterized by its values on virtual vector bundles of rank~\(0\) over the simplicial classifying space~\(B.GL_N\).

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