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48 results for Pontryagin-Thom construction

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 will present proofs for two conjectures stated in arXiv:1808.08073. The first one is that for an arbitrary manifold WW, the homotopy classes of proper maps W×RnRk+nW\times\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}^{k+n} stabilise as nn\to\infty, and the second one is that in a stable range there is a Pontryagin--Thom type bijection for …

2019-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

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 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 ↗

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 ↗

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.

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.

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 ↗

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 ↗

Article constructs coassociative submanifolds in Joyce's G2G_2-manifolds.

problem Constructing coassociative submanifolds in Joyce's G2G_2-manifolds.
method Using Joyce's generalised Kummer construction, focusing on the critical region where the metric degenerates.
result The volume of the coassociatives shrinks to zero as the orbifold-limit is approached.

The twist construction is a geometric model of T-duality that includes constructions of nilmanifolds from tori. This paper shows how one-dimensional foliations on manifolds may be used in a shear construction, which in algebraic form builds certain solvable Lie groups from Abelian ones. We discuss other examples of geo…

2015-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

We describe various constructions in Sasakian geometry. First we generalize the join construction of the first two authors to arbitrary Sasakian manifolds. We then give several examples, including ones which prove the existence of Sasakian-Einstein metrics on manifolds homeomorphic to S2×S5.S^2\times S^5. Then we use a gen…

2006-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We construct bi-invariant total orderings of residually torsion-free nilpotent groups by using Chen's iterated integrals. This construction can be seen as a generalization of the Magnus ordering of the free groups, and equivalent to the classical construction which uses an iteration of central extensions. Our geometric…

2010-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper constructs infinitely many surfaces with specific mean curvature.

problem Creating surfaces with prescribed mean curvature in the presence of a strictly stable minimal surface.
method Synthesizing ideas from previous constructions to create multiple surfaces.
result Infinitely many distinct surfaces with prescribed mean curvature are constructed.

We introduce the cutting construction of possibly non-compact symplectic toric manifolds, in particular, toric symplectic cones that correspond to a weakly convex good cone. Since the symplectization of a toric contact manifold is a toric symplectic cone, we can also construct toric contact manifolds that correspond to…

2013-01-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We construct calibrated submanifolds of R^7 and R^8 by viewing them as total spaces of vector bundles and taking appropriate sub-bundles which are naturally defined using certain surfaces in R^4. We construct examples of associative and coassociative submanifolds of R^7 and of Cayley submanifolds of R^8. This construct…

2004-07-31abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper constructs solutions to a critical Dirac equation on spheres.

problem Solving the critical Dirac equation on spheres with singularities.
method Constructing Delaunay-type solutions and another kind of singular solutions.
result The constructed solutions are building blocks for singular solutions on Spin manifolds.

In this paper, we construct the index bundle gerbe of a family of self-adjoint Dirac-type operators, refining a construction of Segal. In a special case, we construct a geometric bundle gerbe called the caloron bundle gerbe, which comes with a natural connection and curving, and show that it is isomorphic to the analyt…

2011-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Springer varieties appear in both geometric representation theory and knot theory. Motivated by knot theory and categorification Khovanov provides a topological construction of (n/2,n/2)(n/2, n/2) Springer varieties. We extend Khovanov's construction to all two-row Springer varieties. Using the combinatorial and diagrammatic …

2010-07-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This is the second paper in a series of papers aimed at providing a geometric construction of modular functors and topological quantum field theories from conformal field theory building on the constructions in [TUY] and [KNTY]. We give a geometric construct of a modular functor for any simple Lie-algebra and any level…

2003-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

We give an algebro-geometric construction of some of the non-arithmetic ball quotients constructed by the author, Parker and Paupert. The new construction reveals a relationship between the corresponding orbifold fundamental groups and the automorphism group of the Klein quartic, and also with groups constructed by Bar…

2016-05-12abs ↗pdf ↗