The topological Whitehead torsion of an equivariant fiber homotopy equivalence

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1029005153MaRDI QIDQ1895950zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 13 August 1995

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1307/mmj/1029005153

equivariant Euler characteristic fiber homotopy equivalence fibrations Whitehead torsion

Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

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For a finite group \(G\) and locally trivial \(G\)-fibrations \(p : E \to B\) and \(p' : E' \to B'\) between compact \(G\)-ANRs with equivariant compact ANR fibers, consider a \(G\)-fiber homotopy equivalence \(h : E' \to E\) over the \(G\)-fiber homotopy equivalence \(f: B' \to B\). The author shows that for the topological torsion \(\tau\) one has \(\tau(h) = \kappa_G(B') \tau(h_b) + p^* \tau (f)\). Here the first term on the right is a fiberwise product of the equivariant Euler characteristic of \(B'\) and the torsion of the \(G_b\)-equivalence \(h_b\) induced by \(h\) on the fibers, and the second term is the torsion of the pullback of \(f\).

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