32 research outputs found
Normal and conormal maps in homotopy theory
Let M be a monoidal category endowed with a distinguished class of weak
equivalences and with appropriately compatible classifying bundles for monoids
and comonoids. We define and study homotopy-invariant notions of normality for
maps of monoids and of conormality for maps of comonoids in M. These notions
generalize both principal bundles and crossed modules and are preserved by nice
enough monoidal functors, such as the normaliized chain complex functor.
We provide several explicit classes of examples of homotopy-normal and of
homotopy-conormal maps, when M is the category of simplicial sets or the
category of chain complexes over a commutative ring.Comment: 32 pages. The definition of twisting structure in Appendix B has been
reformulated, leading to further slight modifications of definitions in
Section 1. To appear in HH
Spaces of sections of Banach algebra bundles
Suppose that is a -Banach algebra over or
, is a finite dimensional compact metric space, is a standard principal -bundle, and
is the associated algebra of sections.
We produce a spectral sequence which converges to with
[E^2_{-p,q} \cong \check{H}^p(X ; \pi_q(GL_o B)).] A related spectral sequence
converging to \K_{*+1}(A_\zeta) (the real or complex topological -theory)
allows us to conclude that if is Bott-stable, (i.e., if \pi_*(GL_o B) \to
\K_{*+1}(B) is an isomorphism for all ) then so is .Comment: 15 pages. Results generalized to include both real and complex
K-theory. To appear in J. K-Theor
A Note on the Non-Existence of Functors
We consider several cases of non-existence theorems for functors. For
example, there are no nontrivial functors from the category of sets, (or the
category of groups, or vector spaces) to any small category. See 2.3. Another
kind of nonexistence is that of (co-)augmented functors. For example, every
augmented functor from groups to abelian groups, is trivial, i.e. has a trivial
augmentation map. Every surjective co-augmented functor from groups to perfect
groups or to free groups is also trivial