The relationship of generalized manifolds to Poincaré duality complexes and topological manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2018.02.024MaRDI QIDQ1709059zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Friedrich Hegenbarth, Dušan Repovš

Publication date 27 March 2018

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08701, https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?id=120548&dn=

zbMATH Keywords

2-patch space\(\mathbb{L}_q\)-surgerycell-like mapcontrolled structure setcontrolled surgeryENRgeneralized manifoldGromov-Hausdorff metricPoincaré duality complexresolution obstructionWall obstruction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Duality in algebraic topology (55M05) Generalized (extraordinary) homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N20) Poincaré duality spaces (57P10) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67)

Abstract: The primary purpose of this paper concerns the relation of (compact) generalized manifolds to finite Poincar'{e} duality complexes (PD complexes). The problem is that an arbitrary generalized manifold $X$ is always an ENR space, but it is not necessarily a complex. Moreover, finite PD complexes require the Poincar'{e} duality with coefficients in the group ring $Lambda$ ($Lambda$-complexes). Standard homology theory implies that $X$ is a $mathbbZ$-PD complex. Therefore by Browder's theorem, $X$ has a Spivak normal fibration which in turn, determines a Thom class of the pair $(N,partialN)$ of a mapping cylinder neighborhood of $X$ in some Euclidean space. Then $X$ satisfies the $Lambda$-Poincar'{e} duality if this class induces an isomorphism with $Lambda$-coefficients. Unfortunately, the proof of Browder's theorem gives only isomorphisms with $mathbbZ$-coefficients. It is also not very helpful that $X$ is homotopy equivalent to a finite complex $K$, because $K$ is not automatically a $Lambda$-PD complex. Therefore it is convenient to introduce $Lambda$-PD structures. To prove their existence on $X$, we use the construction of $2$-patch spaces and some fundamental results of Bryant, Ferry, Mio, and Weinberger. Since the class of all $Lambda$-PD complexes does not contain all generalized manifolds, we appropriately enlarge this class and then describe (i.e. recognize) generalized manifolds within this enlarged class in terms of the Gromov-Hausdorff metric

Review text

This paper addresses the issue that while a generalized \(n\)-manifold, that is a space \(X\) that is a \(n\)-dimensional separable ENR, and for every \(x \in X\), \(H_{*}(X, X \setminus \{x\}, {\mathbb Z}) \cong H_{*}({\mathbb R}^{n} , {\mathbb R}^{n} \setminus \{ 0 \}, {\mathbb Z})\), satisfies Poincaré duality for \({\mathbb Z}\) coefficients, the space is not in general a complex. The authors introduce the notion of a \(\Lambda\)-PD complex structure which allows the construction of a chain complex for the cohomology and cohomology of a neighbourhood \(N\) of \(X\) in Euclidean space. Not all \(\Lambda\)-PD complexes are generalized manifolds so the authors introduce controlled Poincaré duality complexes as a bridge between simple \(\Lambda\)-PD complexes and generalized manifolds and show how in dimension greater than 5 one can recognize generalized manifolds within this class.

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