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Categories of vector spaces and Grassmannians

Algebraic Topology 2017-11-09 v1

Abstract

We construct a new category of vector spaces which contains both the standard category of vector spaces and Grassmannians. Its space of objects classifies vector bundles, its space of morphisms classifies bundle isomorphisms, and it can be delooped to obtain the topological KK-theory spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.1711.03059,
  title  = {Categories of vector spaces and Grassmannians},
  author = {Yi-Sheng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.03059},
  year   = {2017}
}

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44 pages

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