Dold spaces in homotopy theory

DOI10.2140/AGT.2009.9.1585MaRDI QIDQ834384zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eugenia Schwamberger, Rainer Vogt

Publication date 20 August 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5481

zbMATH Keywords

free algebra over operadhomotopy colimitJames constructionnumerable coversimplicial spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop spaces (55P35) Loop space machines and operads in algebraic topology (55P48) Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Topological categories, foundations of homotopy theory (55U40)

Abstract: Numerably contractible spaces play an important role in the theory of homotopy pushouts and pullbacks. The corresponding results imply that a number of well known weak homotopy equivalences are genuine ones if numerably contractible spaces are involved. In this paper we give a first systematic investigation of numerably contractible spaces. We list the elementary properties of the category of these spaces. We then study simplicial objects in this category. In particular, we show that the topological realization functor preserves fibration sequences if the base is path-connected and numerably contractible in each dimension. Consequently, the loop space functor commutes with realization up to homotopy. We give simple conditions which assure that free algebras over a topological operad are numerably contractible.

Review text

The authors of this article study a class of topological spaces, distinguished by A. Dold, which is closed under many usual constructions of homotopy theory. The authors refer to this category of topological spaces as the class of Dold spaces. To be explicit, a Dold space consists of a space \(X\) equipped with a partition of unity by functions \(f_{\alpha}\) such that the inclusion \(S_{\alpha}\hookrightarrow X\) of the support of each \(f_{\alpha}\) is a nullhomotopic map. The class of Dold spaces includes CW-complexes and is obviously closed under homotopy equivalences, but not all Dold spaces are homotopically equivalent to a CW-complex. The authors begin a systematic study of Dold spaces in this article. They prove as a main result that a homotopy colimit of Dold spaces is still a Dold space, that topological realization preserves fibration sequences of simplicial spaces whose base is a path-connected Dold space in each dimension, and they make explicit a condition ensuring that the free algebra over a topological operad forms a Dold space. The article is well-written and includes a survey of basic properties of Dold spaces.

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