Umkehr maps

DOI10.4310/HHA.2009.V11.N1.A2MaRDI QIDQ1004518zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ralph L. Cohen, John R. Klein

Publication date 10 March 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0540, http://intlpress.com/hha/v11/n1/

zbMATH Keywords

fibred spectrumstring topologyumkehr map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Duality in algebraic topology (55M05) Homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N99) Fibrewise topology (55R70)

Abstract: In this note we study umkehr maps in generalized (co)homology theories arising from the Pontrjagin-Thom construction, from integrating along fibers, pushforward homomorphisms, and other similar constructions. We consider the basic properties of these constructions and develop axioms which any umkehr homomorphism must satisfy. We use a version of Brown representability to show that these axioms completely characterize these homomorphisms, and a resulting uniqueness theorem follows. Finally, motivated by constructions in string topology, we extend this axiomatic treatment of umkehr homomorphisms to a fiberwise setting.

Review text

The authors give a unified treatment of umkehr homomorphisms such as those defined by the Pontryagin-Thom construction, by intersections of chains, by integration along fibres, by push-forward constructions, and by the Becker-Gottlieb transfer. They define an umkehr functor to be a contravariant functor from manifolds to spectra satisfying certain axioms, they show that these are simply the functors of the form \(\text{map}(-,E)\), and they show how various umkehr homomorphisms arise from various choices of \(E\). Because of applications in string topology, they also give the theory in a fibrewise setting, proving a fibrewise version of Brown representability.

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