Minimum numbers and Wecken theorems in topological coincidence theory. I

DOI10.1007/S11784-011-0058-8zbMATH Open1270.55002arXiv1305.1664OpenAlexW3100441417MaRDI QIDQ644455FDOQ644455

Authors: Ulrich Koschorke 

Publication date: 4 November 2011

Published in: Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Minimum numbers measure the obstruction to removing coincidences of two given maps (between smooth manifolds M and N of dimensions m and n, resp.). In this paper we compare them to four distinct types of Nielsen numbers. These agree with the classical Nielsen number when m = n (e.g. in the fixed point setting where M = N and one of the maps is the identity map). However, in higher codimensions m - n > 0 their definitions and computations involve distinct aspects of differential topology and homotopy theory. We develop tools which help us 1.) to decide when a minimum number is equal to a Nielsen number ("Wecken theorem"), and 2.) to determine Nielsen numbers. Here certain homotopy theoretical criteria play a central role. E.g. failures of the "Wecken condition" (cf. definition 1.18 below) can have very interesting geometric consequences. The selfcoincidence case where the two maps are homotopic turns out to be particularly illuminating. We give many concrete applications in special settings where M or N are spheres, spherical space forms, projective spaces, tori, Stiefel manifolds or Grassmannians. Already in the simplest examples an important role is played e.g. by Kervaire invariants, all versions of Hopf invariants (a la James, Hilton, Ganea,...) and the elements in the stable homotopy of spheres defined by invariantly framed Lie groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1664

Recommendations

• Geometric and homotopy theoretic methods in Nielsen coincidence theory
• A Van Kampen type theorem for coincidences
• On the coincidence points of mappings of the torus into a surface
• Nielsen type invariants and the location of coincidence sets in positive codimension
• Nielsen coincidence theory in arbitrary codimensions

zbMATH Keywords

coincidence pointNielsen numberKervaire invariantHopf invariantWecken condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fixed-point and coincidence theorems (topological aspects) (54H25) Loop spaces (55P35) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20) Homotopy groups of spheres (55Q40) Hopf invariants (55Q25)

Cites Work

• Vector fields and other vector bundle morphisms - a singularity approach
• Homotopical intersection theory. I
• Geometric and homotopy theoretic methods in Nielsen coincidence theory
• Groups of homotopy spheres. I
• Nielsen coincidence theory in arbitrary codimensions
• Characteristic Classes. (AM-76)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Selfcoincidences in higher codimensions
• The homotopy coincidence index
• The Classification of Real Division Algebras
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• A manifold which does not admit any differentiable structure
• Wecken property for roots
• The Arf-Kervaire invariant problem in algebraic topology: Introduction
• Compositional Methods in Homotopy Groups of Spheres. (AM-49)
• Bordism Invariants of Intersections of Submanifolds
• The fixed point index of fibre-preserving maps
• Étude homotopique des espaces de plongements
• Bordism and Geometric Dimension.
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Selfcoincidences and roots in Nielsen theory
• A generalization of the homology and homotopy suspension
• Fixed points and braids
• Fixed points and braids. II
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Nielsen coincidence theory of fibre-preserving maps and Dold's fixed point index
• Kervaire invariants and selfcoincidences
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• THE GROUPS 7π(V_nm)(I)
• Minimizing the number of fixed points for self-maps of compact surfaces
• Nonstabilized Nielsen coincidence invariants and Hopf-Ganea homomorphisms
• On removing coincidences of two maps when only one, rather than both, of them may be deformed by a homotopy
• The Kervaire invariant of framed manifolds and its generalization
• Minimizing coincidence numbers of maps into projective spaces
• Fixed points of \(S^ 1\)-fibrations
• Lie groups as framed manifolds
• Nielsen coincidence theory and coincidence-producing maps for manifolds with boundary
• Rank and Adams filtration of a Lie group
• Commutativity and Wecken properties for fixed points on surfaces and 3- manifolds
• Compact Lie groups and the stable homotopy of spheres
• Self-coincidence of mappings between spheres and the strong Kervaire invariant one problem
• Self-coincidence of fibre maps
• Self-coincidence of maps from \(S^q\)-bundles over \(S^n\) to \(S^n\)
• Coincidence theory: The minimizing problem
• Fixed points and coincidences in torus bundles
• Some homotopy theoretical questions arising in Nielsen coincidence theory
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Products on spheres
• On the suspension triad
• Reidemeister coincidence invariants of fiberwise maps

Cited In (14)

• Coincidences of fibrewise maps between sphere bundles over the circle
• Kervaire invariants and selfcoincidences
• Coincidences and secondary Nielsen numbers
• Nielsen equalizer theory
• Nielsen coincidence numbers, Hopf invariants and spherical space forms
• Nielsen type invariants and the location of coincidence sets in positive codimension
• Nielsen numbers in topological coincidence theory
• Coincidence Nielsen numbers for covering maps for smooth manifolds
• Coincidences in codimension one
• On the coincidence points of mappings of the torus into a surface
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Nonstabilized Nielsen coincidence invariants and Hopf-Ganea homomorphisms
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• One codimensional Wecken type theorems

This page was built for publication: Minimum numbers and Wecken theorems in topological coincidence theory. I

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q644455)