Monoids of moduli spaces of manifolds

DOI10.2140/GT.2010.14.1243zbMATH Open1205.55007arXiv0905.2855OpenAlexW2099945683MaRDI QIDQ982161FDOQ982161

Authors: Søren Galatius, Oscar Randal-Williams 

Publication date: 6 July 2010

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

Abstract: We study categories of d-dimensional cobordisms from the perspective of Tillmann and Galatius-Madsen-Tillmann-Weiss. There is a category $C_{h}eta$ of closed smooth (d-1)-manifolds and smooth d-dimensional cobordisms, equipped with generalised orientations specified by a fibration $heta:XoBO(d)$. The main result of GMTW is a determination of the homotopy type of the classifying space $B{C}_{h}eta$. The goal of the present paper is a systematic investigation of subcategories $D$ of $C_{h}eta$ having classifying space homotopy equivalent to that of $C_{h}eta$, the smaller such $D$ the better. We prove that in most cases of interest, $D$ can be chosen to be a homotopy commutative monoid. As a consequence we prove that the stable cohomology of many moduli spaces of surfaces with $heta$-structure is the cohomology of the infinite loop space of a certain Thom spectrum. This was known for certain special $heta$, using homological stability results; our work is independent of such results and covers many more cases.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2855

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zbMATH Keywords

cobordism categorysurface bundlestopological monoids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Infinite loop spaces (55P47)

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