Involution on pseudoisotopy spaces and the space of nonnegatively curved metrics

Autor: Bustamante, Mauricio, Farrell, Francis Thomas, Jiang, Yi
Rok vydání: 2017
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: We prove that certain involutions defined by Vogell and Burghelea-Fiedorowicz on the rational algebraic $K$-theory of spaces coincide. This gives a way to compute the positive and negative eigenspaces of the involution on rational homotopy groups of pseudoisotopy spaces from the involution on rational $S^{1}$-equivariant homology group of the free loop space of a simply-connected manifold. As an application, we give explicit dimensions of the open manifolds $V$ that appear in Belegradek-Farrell-Kapovitch's work for which the spaces of complete nonnegatively curved metrics on $V$ have nontrivial rational homotopy groups.
Comment: 23 pages, to appear in Transactions of the AMS
Databáze: arXiv