Connectivity of finite subset spaces of cell complexes

DOI10.2140/PJM.2004.217.175MaRDI QIDQ1775498zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher Tuffley

Publication date 3 May 2005

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0304086

zbMATH Keywords

\(k\)-connected space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connected and locally connected spaces (general aspects) (54D05) Homotopy groups of special spaces (55Q52) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Homotopy theory (55P99)

Abstract: The kth finite subset space of a topological space X is the space exp_k X of non-empty subsets of X of size at most k, topologised as a quotient of X^k. Using results from our earlier paper (math.GT/0210315) on the finite subset spaces of connected graphs we show that the kth finite subset space of a connected cell complex is (k-2)-connected, and (k-1)-connected if in addition the underlying space is simply connected. We expect exp_k X to be (k+m-2)-connected if X is an m-connected cell complex, and reduce proving this to the problem of proving it for finite wedges of (m+1)-spheres. Our results complement a theorem due to Handel that for path-connected Hausdorff X the map on pi_i induced by the inclusion exp_k X --> exp_{2k+1} X is zero for all k and i.

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