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20 results for Pontryagin-Thom

Study cobordisms of nested manifolds and their invariants.

problem Understanding cobordisms of nested manifolds and their invariants.
method Identify a nested analog of the Pontryagin-Thom construction and find spaces homotopy equivalent to nested Pontryagin-Thom spaces.
result Discover nested cobordism invariants and provide an alternative proof of Wall's splitting result.

We formulate a theory of pointed manifolds, accommodating both embeddings and Pontryagin-Thom collapse maps, so as to present a common generalization of Poincaré duality in topology and Koszul duality in En\mathcal{E}_n-algebra.

2014-09-09abs ↗pdf ↗

The study tackles realisability of twisted homology classes and introduces new techniques in parametrised homotopy theory.

problem When a twisted homology class is realised by a submanifold.
method Introducing cobordism classes twisted by a coefficient system, defining a twisted Thom space, and constructing a parametrised Postnikov tower.
result A twisted homology class is realisable if and only if its Poincaré dual is the image of the twisted Thom class under a parametrised map.

In this paper we classify the homotopy classes of proper maps ERkE\rightarrow \mathbb R^k, where EE is a vector bundle over a compact Hausdorff space. As a corollary we compute the homotopy classes of proper maps RnRk\mathbb R^n\rightarrow \mathbb R^k. We find a stability range of such maps. We conclude with some remarks…

2018-08-24abs ↗pdf ↗

The groups of link bordism can be identified with homotopy groups via the Pontryagin-Thom construction. B.J. Sanderson computed the bordism group of 3 component surface-links using the Hilton-Milnor Theorem, and later gave a geometric interpretation of the groups in terms of intersections of Seifert hypersurfaces and t…

2000-08-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We provide an alternative proof that Koschorke's κκ-invariant is injective on the set of link homotopy classes of nn-component homotopy Brunnian links BLM(n)BLM(n). The existing proof (by Koschorke \cite{Koschorke97}) is based on the Pontryagin--Thom theory of framed cobordisms, whereas ours is closer in spirit to techni…

2012-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

This is a survey paper of author's results on cobordism groups and semigroups of fold maps and simple fold maps. The results include: establishing a relation between fold maps and immersions through geometrical invariants of cobordism classes of fold maps and simple fold maps in terms of immersions with prescribed norm…

2007-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper is on homotopy classification of maps of (n+1)-dimensional manifolds into the n-dimensional sphere. For a continuous map f of an (n+1)-manifold into the n-sphere define the degree deg f to be the class dual to f^*[S^n], where [S^n] is the fundamental class. We present a short and direct proof of the followin…

2008-08-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a chain-level model for Chas-Sullivan products using Morse theory with differential graded coefficients.

problem Chas-Sullivan products on homology of loop spaces.
method Morse theory with differential graded coefficients, functorial properties, K{ü}nneth formula, Pontryagin-Thom construction.
result Chain-level description of Chas-Sullivan products.

Survey on manifolds with positive scalar curvature, focusing on obstructions and constructions.

problem Which manifolds admit positive scalar curvature metrics?
method Topological obstructions and geometric constructions (surgery/bordism theorem)
result The answer depends on the bordism class of the manifold, with complete solutions for simply connected manifolds.

Steenrod homotopy theory is a framework for doing algebraic topology on general spaces in terms of algebraic topology of polyhedra; from another viewpoint, it studies the topology of the lim^1 functor (for inverse sequences of groups). This paper is primarily concerned with the case of compacta, in which Steenrod homot…

2008-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗