Fake wedges

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2014-06030-3zbMATH Open1316.55004arXiv1208.2290OpenAlexW3037692625MaRDI QIDQ5420136FDOQ5420136

Authors: John R. Klein, John W. Peter 

Publication date: 11 June 2014

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A fake wedge is a diagram of spaces K <- A -> C whose double mapping cylinder is contractible. The terminology stems from the special case A = K v C with maps given by the projections. In this paper, we study the homotopy type of the moduli space D(K,C) of fake wedges on K and C. We formulate two conjectures concerning this moduli space and verify that these conjectures hold after looping once. We show how embeddings of manifolds in Euclidean space provide a wealth of examples of non-trivial fake wedges. In an appendix, we recall discussions that the first author had with Greg Arone and Bob Thomason in early 1995 and explain how these are related to our conjectures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2290

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacesuspensiondouble mapping cylinderfake wedge

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification of homotopy type (55P15) Stable homotopy theory, spectra (55P42) Homotopy functors in algebraic topology (55P65) Spectra with additional structure ((E_infty), (A_infty), ring spectra, etc.) (55P43) Suspensions (55P40)

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