On the homotopy type and the fundamental crossed complex of the skeletal filtration of a CW-complex

DOI10.4310/HHA.2007.V9.N1.A13zbMATH Open1114.55002arXivmath/0605364MaRDI QIDQ869726FDOQ869726

João Martins

Publication date: 8 March 2007

Published in: Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that if $M$ is a CW-complex, then the homotopy type of the skeletal filtration of $M$ does not depend on the cell decomposition of $M$ up to wedge products with $n$-disks $D^n$, when the later are given their natural CW-decomposition with unique cells of order 0, $(n-1)$ and $n$; a result resembling J.H.C. Whitehead's work on simple homotopy types. From the Colimit Theorem for the Fundamental Crossed Complex of a CW-complex (due to R. Brown and P.J. Higgins), follows an algebraic analogue for the fundamental crossed complex $Pi(M)$ of the skeletal filtration of $M$, which thus depends only on the homotopy type of $M$ (as a space) up to free product with crossed complexes of the type $Pi(D^n),ninN$. This expands an old result (due to J.H.C. Whitehead) asserting that the homotopy type of $Pi(M)$ depends only on the homotopy type of $M$. We use these results to define a homotopy invariant $I_A$ of CW-complexes for any finite crossed complex $A$. We interpret it in terms of the weak homotopy type of the function space $TOP((M,*),(|A|,*))$, where $|A|$ is the classifying space of the crossed complex $A$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605364

zbMATH Keywords

CW-complexcrossed complexhigher homotopy van Kampen theoreminvariants of homotopy typesskeletal filtration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10) Homotopy groups, general; sets of homotopy classes (55Q05)

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