On the infinite loop space structure of the cobordism category
Algebraic Topology
2017-03-22 v3
Abstract
We show an equivalence of infinite loop spaces between the classify- ing space of the cobordism category, with infinite loop space structure induced by taking disjoint union of manifolds, and the infinite loop space associated to the Madsen-Tillmann spectrum.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1505.03490,
title = {On the infinite loop space structure of the cobordism category},
author = {Hoang Kim Nguyen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.03490},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
14 pages, 1 figure, rewritten introduction and corrected some errors in section 5