Embedded cobordism categories and spaces of submanifolds

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNQ072zbMATH Open1227.57037arXiv0912.2505OpenAlexW3099556455MaRDI QIDQ3079527FDOQ3079527

Authors: Oscar Randal-Williams 

Publication date: 2 March 2011

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Galatius, Madsen, Tillmann and Weiss have identified the homotopy type of the classifying space of the cobordism category with objects (d-1)-dimensional manifolds embedded in R^infty. In this paper we apply the techniques of spaces of manifolds, as developed by the author and Galatius, to identify the homotopy type of the cobordism category with objects (d-1)-dimensional submanifolds of a fixed background manifold M. There is a description in terms of a space of sections of a bundle over M associated to its tangent bundle. This can be interpreted as a form of Poincare duality, relating a space of submanifolds of M to a space of functions on M.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2505

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zbMATH Keywords

group completionconfiguration spacecobordism categorytangential structurePoincaré dualityGromov h-principlespaces of manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45) Loop spaces (55P35) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) (mathrm{O})- and (mathrm{SO})-cobordism (57R75) Infinite loop spaces (55P47) Other types of cobordism (57R90) Fibrewise topology (55R70)

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