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

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2018.02.024zbMATH Open1387.57046arXiv1803.08701OpenAlexW2789785447MaRDI QIDQ1709059FDOQ1709059

Authors: Friedrich Hegenbarth, Dušan Repovš 

Publication date: 27 March 2018

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

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08701

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zbMATH Keywords

generalized manifoldcell-like mapGromov-Hausdorff metriccontrolled surgeryWall obstruction\(\mathbb{L}_q\)-surgery2-patch spacecontrolled structure setENRresolution obstructionPoincaré duality complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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