Homotopy colimits of classifying spaces of abelian subgroups of a finite group

DOI10.2140/AGT.2014.14.343zbMATH Open1305.55008OpenAlexW4240922215MaRDI QIDQ740539FDOQ740539

Authors: Cihan Okay 

Publication date: 3 September 2014

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The classifying space BG of a topological group $G$ can be filtered by a sequence of subspaces $B(q,G)$, using the descending central series of free groups. If $G$ is finite, describing them as homotopy colimits is convenient when applying homotopy theoretic methods. In this paper we introduce natural subspaces $B(q,G{)}_p$ of $B(q,G)$ defined for a fixed prime $p$. We show that $B(q,G)$ is stably homotopy equivalent to a wedge of $B(q,G{)}_p$ as $p$ runs over the primes dividing the order of $G$. Colimits of abelian groups play an important role in understanding the homotopy type of these spaces. Extraspecial $2$-groups are key examples, for which these colimits turn out to be finite. We prove that for extraspecial 2-groups, $B(2,G)$ does not have the homotopy type of a $K(pi,1)$ space. For a finite group $G$, we compute the complex K-theory of $B(2,G)$ modulo torsion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2950

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zbMATH Keywords

\(K\)-theoryclassifying spacehomotopy colimitdescending central series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy groups of special spaces (55Q52) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Topological (K)-theory (55N15)

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