The refined transfer, bundle structures, and algebraicK-theory

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTP010MaRDI QIDQ3391676zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John R. Klein, Bruce E. Williams

Publication date 12 August 2009

Published in Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.0250

zbMATH Keywords

tracealgebraic \(K\)-theoryfibre bundlesbundle structurescompact fibre smoothingcompact TOP reductionrefined transferWaldhausen's functor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification of fiber spaces or bundles in algebraic topology (55R15) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Algebraic (K)-theory of spaces (19D10) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65) Transfer for fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R12)

Abstract: We give new homotopy theoretic criteria for deciding when a fibration with homotopy finite fibers admits a reduction to a fiber bundle with compact topological manifold fibers. The criteria lead to a new and unexpected result about homeomorphism groups of manifolds. A tool used in the proof is a surjective splitting of the assembly map for Waldhausen's functor A(X). We also give concrete examples of fibrations having a reduction to a fiber bundle with compact topological manifold fibers but which fail to admit a compact fiber smoothing. The examples are detected by algebraic K-theory invariants. We consider a refinement of the Becker-Gottlieb transfer. We show that a version of the axioms described by Becker and Schultz uniquely determines the refined transfer for the class of fibrations admitting a reduction to a fiber bundle with compact topological manifold fibers. In an appendix, we sketch a theory of characteristic classes for fibrations. The classes are primary obstructions to finding a compact fiber smoothing.

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