Fake wedges

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2014-06030-3MaRDI QIDQ5420136zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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