On the Alexandroff-Borsuk problem

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2017.02.052MaRDI QIDQ2400853zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Umed H. Karimov, M. Cencelj, Dušan Repovš

Publication date 30 August 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.01057

zbMATH Keywords

\(\varepsilon\)-map\(| E_8 |\)-manifoldAlexandroff-Borsuk manifold problemalmost-smooth manifoldANRcellular mapfinite polyhedronGalewski-Stern obstructionhomotopy equivalenceKirby-Siebenmann classnon-triangulable manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continua and generalizations (54F15) Counterexamples in general topology (54G20) Absolute neighborhood retracts (55M15) Topological (K)-theory (55N15) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: We investigate the classical Alexandroff-Borsuk problem in the category of non-triangulable manifolds: Given an $n$-dimensional compact non-triangulable manifold $M^n$ and $varepsilon>0$, does there exist an $varepsilon$-map of $M^n$ onto an $n$-dimensional finite polyhedron which induces a homotopy equivalence?

Review text

In [\textit{J. E. West}, Ann. Math. (2) 106, 1--18 (1977; Zbl 0375.57013)], a problem of Borsuk was answered in the affirmative, showing that every compact absolute neighborhood retract (ANR) is homotopy equivalent to a finite polyhedron. The following Alexandroff-Borsuk ANR Problem: ``Given any compact \(n\)-dimensional absolute neighborhood retract \(X^n\) and any \(\epsilon > 0\), does there exist an \(\epsilon\)-map \(f : X^n \to P^n\), onto a finite \(n\)-dimensional polyhedron \(P^n\) which is a homotopy equivalence? remained open. In this paper the Alexandroff-Borsuk problem for the category of non-triangulable manifolds is considered. Since every topological \(n\)-manifold is a separable metric locally Euclidean space of dimension \(n\), it is a locally contractible finite-dimensional space and therefore it is an ANR, thus, in view of the West theorem mentioned above, one has the following natural special Alexandroff-Borsuk Manifold Problem: ``Given a compact \(n\)-dimensional manifold \(M^n\) and \(\epsilon > 0\), does there exist an \(\epsilon\)-map of \(M^n\) onto a finite \(n\)-dimensional polyhedron \(P^n\) which is a homotopy equivalence? For every \(n \geq 4\), there exists a closed \(n\)-dimensional manifold which is not a polyhedron. Such manifolds were first constructed in [\textit{M. H. Freedman}, J. Differ. Geom. 17, 357--453 (1982; Zbl 0528.57011)] in dimension \(4\), in [\textit{D. Galewski} and \textit{R. Stern}, in: Geometric topology, Proc. Conf., Athens/Ga. 1977, 345--350 (1979; Zbl 0477.57010)] in dimension \(5\), and in [\textit{C. Manolescu}, J. Am. Math. Soc. 29, No. 1, 147--176 (2016; Zbl 1343.57015)] in dimensions \(n \geq 6\). The main result of the paper is then the following theorem: The Alexandroff-Borsuk Manifold Problem has an affirmative solution for the non triangulable closed manifolds of Freedman, Galewski and Stern, and Manolescu.

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