Homology manifolds and euclidean bundles
Algebraic Topology
2024-06-24 v1 Geometric Topology
Abstract
We construct a Poincar\'e complex whose periodic total surgery obstruction vanishes but whose Spivak normal fibration does not admit a reduction to a stable euclidean bundle. This contradicts the conjunction of two claims in the literature: Namely, on the one hand that a Poincar\'e complex with vanishing periodic total surgery obstruction is homotopy equivalent to a homology manifold, which appears in work of Bryant--Ferry--Mio--Weinberger, and on the other that the Spivak normal fibration of a homology manifold always admits a reduction to a stable euclidean bundle, which appears in work of Ferry--Pedersen.
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@article{arxiv.2406.14677,
title = {Homology manifolds and euclidean bundles},
author = {Fabian Hebestreit and Markus Land and Michael Weiss and Christoph Winges},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.14677},
year = {2024}
}