The block structure spaces of real projective spaces and orthogonal calculus of functors II

DOI10.1515/FORUM.2009.055zbMATH Open1191.57016arXivmath/0703303MaRDI QIDQ3401178FDOQ3401178

Authors: Tibor Macko, Michael S. Weiss 

Publication date: 29 January 2010

Published in: Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a finite dimensional real vector space V with inner product, let F(V) be the block structure space, in the sense of surgery theory, of the projective space of V. Continuing a program launched in part I, we investigate F as a functor on vector spaces with inner product, relying on functor calculus ideas. It was shown in part I that F agrees with its first Taylor approximation T_1 F (which is a polynomial functor of degree 1) on vector spaces V with dim(V) > 5. To convert this theorem into a functorial homotopy-theoretic description of F(V), one needs to know in addition what T_1 F(V) is when V=0. Here we show that T_1 F(0) is the standard L-theory space associated with the group Z/2, except for a deviation in pi_0. The main corollary is a functorial two-stage decomposition of F(V) for dim(V) > 5 which has the L-theory of the group Z/2 as one layer, and a form of unreduced homology of RP (V) with coefficients in the L-theory of the trivial group as the other layer. (Except for dimension shifts, these are also the layers in the traditional Sullivan-Wall-Quinn-Ranicki decomposition of F(V). But the dimension shifts are serious and the SWQR decomposition of F(V) is not functorial in V.) Because of the functoriality, our analysis of F(V) remains meaningful and valid when V=R^infty.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703303

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zbMATH Keywords

surgeryorthogonal calculus\(\Delta\) setsjoin constructionsThe block structure spacetower of functors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Homotopy theory (55P99) Topological manifolds (57N99)

Cites Work

• Categories and cohomology theories
• Orthogonal Calculus
• The Algebraic Theory of Surgery II. Applications to Topology
• Spaces with local equivalence relations, and their monodromy
• The block structure spaces of real projective spaces and orthogonal calculus of functors

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