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Homological epimorphisms and homotopy epimorphisms

Algebraic Topology 2021-06-15 v2

Abstract

We show that the notions of homotopy epimorphism and homological epimorphism in the category of differential graded algebras are equivalent. As an application we obtain a characterization of acyclic maps of topological spaces in terms of induced maps of their chain algebras of based loop spaces. In the case of a universal acyclic map we obtain, for a wide class of spaces, an explicit algebraic description for these induced maps in terms of derived localization.

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@article{arxiv.1908.11283,
  title  = {Homological epimorphisms and homotopy epimorphisms},
  author = {Joe Chuang and Andrey Lazarev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.11283},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

12 pages. In this version an erroneous definition of an acyclic map has been corrected; this has not affected the rest of the paper

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