scholarly journals EMBEDDINGS, NORMAL INVARIANTS AND FUNCTOR CALCULUS

2016 ◽  
Vol 225 ◽  
pp. 152-184
Author(s):  
JOHN R. KLEIN
Keyword(s):  
Poincaré Duality ◽  
Poincare Duality ◽  
Duality Space ◽  
Smooth Embedding ◽  
Poincaré Duality Space

This paper investigates the space of codimension zero embeddings of a Poincaré duality space in a disk. One of our main results exhibits a tower that interpolates from the space of Poincaré immersions to a certain space of “unlinked” Poincaré embeddings. The layers of this tower are described in terms of the coefficient spectra of the identity appearing in Goodwillie’s homotopy functor calculus. We also answer a question posed to us by Sylvain Cappell. The appendix proposes a conjectural relationship between our tower and the manifold calculus tower for the smooth embedding space.

scholarly journals TOPOLOGICAL 4-MANIFOLDS WITH 4-DIMENSIONAL FUNDAMENTAL GROUP

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
DANIEL KASPROWSKI ◽  
MARKUS LAND
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Group ◽  
Homotopy Equivalent ◽  
Poincaré Duality ◽  
Poincare Duality ◽  
Canonical Map ◽  
Duality Space ◽  
Simply Connected Manifolds ◽  
Simply Connected ◽  
Poincaré Duality Space

Abstract Let $\pi$ be a group satisfying the Farrell–Jones conjecture and assume that $B\pi$ is a 4-dimensional Poincaré duality space. We consider topological, closed, connected manifolds with fundamental group $\pi$ whose canonical map to $B\pi$ has degree 1, and show that two such manifolds are s-cobordant if and only if their equivariant intersection forms are isometric and they have the same Kirby–Siebenmann invariant. If $\pi$ is good in the sense of Freedman, it follows that two such manifolds are homeomorphic if and only if they are homotopy equivalent and have the same Kirby–Siebenmann invariant. This shows rigidity in many cases that lie between aspherical 4-manifolds, where rigidity is expected by Borel’s conjecture, and simply connected manifolds where rigidity is a consequence of Freedman’s classification results.

Actions of finite p-groups on homology manifolds

2001 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
BERNHARD HANKE
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Cyclic Group ◽  
Prime Order ◽  
Fixed Point Set ◽  
Poincare Duality ◽  
Cohomology Rings ◽  
Duality Space ◽  
Point Set ◽  
Homology Manifolds ◽  
Poincaré Duality Space

Let a cyclic group of odd prime order p act on a ℤ(p)-Poincaré duality space X. We prove a relation between the Witt classes associated to the [ ]p-cohomology rings of the fixed point set of this action and of X. This is applied to show a similar result for actions of finite p-groups on ℤ(p)-homology manifolds.

scholarly journals Tautological rings of spaces of pointed genus two curves of compact type

2016 ◽  
Vol 152 (7) ◽  
pp. 1398-1420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Hodge Structure ◽  
Galois Representation ◽  
Mixed Hodge Structure ◽  
Poincaré Duality ◽  
General Study ◽  
Compact Type ◽  
Poincare Duality ◽  
Tautological Ring ◽  
Genus Two ◽  
Tautological Rings

We prove that the tautological ring of ${\mathcal{M}}_{2,n}^{\mathsf{ct}}$, the moduli space of $n$-pointed genus two curves of compact type, does not have Poincaré duality for any $n\geqslant 8$. This result is obtained via a more general study of the cohomology groups of ${\mathcal{M}}_{2,n}^{\mathsf{ct}}$. We explain how the cohomology can be decomposed into pieces corresponding to different local systems and how the tautological cohomology can be identified within this decomposition. Our results allow the computation of $H^{k}({\mathcal{M}}_{2,n}^{\mathsf{ct}})$ for any $k$ and $n$ considered both as $\mathbb{S}_{n}$-representation and as mixed Hodge structure/$\ell$-adic Galois representation considered up to semi-simplification. A consequence of our results is also that all even cohomology of $\overline{{\mathcal{M}}}_{2,n}$ is tautological for $n<20$, and that the tautological ring of $\overline{{\mathcal{M}}}_{2,n}$ fails to have Poincaré duality for all $n\geqslant 20$. This improves and simplifies results of the author and Orsola Tommasi.

Splittings of Poincaré Duality Groups III

1989 ◽  
Vol s2-39 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.H. Kropholler ◽  
M. A. Roller
Keyword(s):  
Poincaré Duality ◽  
Poincare Duality ◽  
Duality Groups

scholarly journals The Baum-Connes conjecture, noncommutative Poincaré duality, and the boundary of the free group

2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (38) ◽  
pp. 2425-2445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heath Emerson
Keyword(s):  
Free Group ◽  
Homology Class ◽  
Hyperbolic Group ◽  
Cross Product ◽  
Direct Connection ◽  
Poincaré Duality ◽  
Poincare Duality ◽  
Duality Map ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Gromov Boundary

For every hyperbolic groupΓwith Gromov boundary∂Γ, one can form the cross productC∗-algebraC(∂Γ)⋊Γ. For each such algebra, we construct a canonicalK-homology class. This class induces a Poincaré duality mapK∗(C(∂Γ)⋊Γ)→K∗+1(C(∂Γ)⋊Γ). We show that this map is an isomorphism in the case ofΓ=𝔽2, the free group on two generators. We point out a direct connection between our constructions and the Baum-Connes conjecture and eventually use the latter to deduce our result.

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