English

Coincidence Reidemeister trace and its generalization

Algebraic Topology 2016-08-11 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We give a homotopy invariant construction of the Reidemeister trace for the coincidence of two maps between closed manifolds of not necessarily the same dimensions. It is realized as a homology class of the homotopy equalizer, which coincides with the Hurewicz image of Koschorke's stabilized bordism invariant. To define it, we use a kind of shriek maps appearing string topology. As an application, we compute the coincidence Reidemeister trace for the self-coincidence of the projections of S1S^1-bundles on CPn\mathbb{C}P^n. We also mention how to relate our construction to the string topology operation called the loop coproduct.

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@article{arxiv.1606.07363,
  title  = {Coincidence Reidemeister trace and its generalization},
  author = {Mitsunobu Tsutaya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.07363},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

25 pages, the description using Thom spectra is added, the generalization of the Reidemeister trace for three or more maps is deleted

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