The homotopy type of the cobordism category

DOI10.1007/S11511-009-0036-9zbMATH Open1221.57039arXivmath/0605249OpenAlexW2019538266WikidataQ101247587 ScholiaQ101247587MaRDI QIDQ617863FDOQ617863

Authors: Søren Galatius, Ib Madsen, U. Tillmann, Michael S. Weiss 

Publication date: 14 January 2011

Published in: Acta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The embedded cobordism category under study in this paper generalizes the category of conformal surfaces, introduced by G. Segal in order to formalize the concept of field theories. Our main result identifies the homotopy type of the classifying space of the embedded d-dimensional cobordism category for all d. For d=2, our results lead to a new proof of the generalized Mumford conjecture, somewhat different in spirit from the original one.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605249

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification of homotopy type (55P15) (mathrm{O})- and (mathrm{SO})-cobordism (57R75) Infinite loop spaces (55P47) Other types of cobordism (57R90)

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