Homotopy groups of highly connected Poincaré duality complexes

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Abstract: Methods are developed to relate the action of a principal fibration to relative Whitehead products in order to determine the homotopy type of certain spaces. The methods are applied to thoroughly analyze the homotopy type of the based loops on certain cell attachments. Key examples are (n-1)-connected Poincare Duality complexes of dimension 2n or 2n+1 with minor cohomological conditions.


The authors consider the following case related to the cell attachment problem and Ganea-type results. Suppose that there is a cofibration $A\xrightarrow{f}Y\to Y\cup CA$; there is a map $Y\to Z$ which induces a principal fibration $\Omega Z\to E \to Y$; and the map $Y \to Z$ extends to a map $Y \cup CA \to Z$, inducing a principal fibration $\Omega Z \to E' \xrightarrow{p'} Y \cup CA$. They develop new techniques that relate the action of a principal fibration to relative Whitehead products in order to identify the homotopy type of $E'$ and the homotopy class of $p'$ in terms of the homotopy type of $E$ and the homotopy classes of $p$ and $f$. This requires certain hypotheses on the spaces and maps involved, but these are fulfilled in a wide variety of contexts. The new methods are powerful and should have numerous applications.











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