Extension theory of infinite symmetric products

DOI10.4064/FM182-1-3MaRDI QIDQ4829355zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Dydak

Publication date 29 November 2004

Published in Fundamenta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404332

zbMATH Keywords

cohomological dimensiondimensiondimension functionsEilenberg-MacLane complexesinfinite symmetric product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dimension theory in general topology (54F45) Dimension theory in algebraic topology (55M10) Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces (55P20) Extension of maps (54C20)

Abstract: We present an approach to cohomological dimension theory based on infinite symmetric products and on the general theory of dimension called the extension dimension. The notion of the extension dimension $ExD(X)$ was introduced by A.N.Dranishnikov cite {D${}_5$} in the context of compact spaces and CW complexes. This paper investigates extension types of infinite symmetric products $SP(L)$. One of the main ideas of the paper is to treat $ExD(X)leqSP(L)$ as the fundamental concept of cohomological dimension theory instead of $di{m}_G(X)leqn$. In a subsequent paper cite{Dy${}_6$} we show how properties of infinite symmetric products lead naturally to a calculus of graded groups which implies most of classical results of the cohomological dimension. The basic notion in cite{Dy${}_6$} is that of homological dimension of a graded group which allows for simultanous treatment of cohomological dimension of compacta and extension properties of CW complexes. We introduce cohomology of $X$ with respect to $L$ (defined as homotopy groups of the function space $SP(L{)}^X$). As an application of our results we characterize all countable groups $G$ so that the Moore space $M(G,n)$ is of the same extension type as the Eilenberg-MacLane space $K(G,n)$. Another application is characterization of infinite symmetric products of the same extension type as a compact (or finite-dimensional and countable) CW complex.

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