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Phantom maps and fibrations

Algebraic Topology 2020-04-02 v1

Abstract

Given pointed CWCW-complexes XX and YY, \rmph(X,Y)\rmph(X, Y) denotes the set of homotopy classes of phantom maps from XX to YY and \rmsph(X,Y)\rmsph(X, Y) denotes the subset of \rmph(X,Y)\rmph(X, Y) consisting of homotopy classes of special phantom maps. In a preceding paper, we gave a sufficient condition such that \rmph(X,Y)\rmph(X, Y) and \rmsph(X,Y)\rmsph(X, Y) have natural group structures and established a formula for calculating the groups \rmph(X,Y)\rmph(X, Y) and \rmsph(X,Y)\rmsph(X, Y) in many cases where the groups [X,ΩY^][X,\Omega \widehat{Y}] are nontrivial. In this paper, we establish a dual version of the formula, in which the target is the total space of a fibration, to calculate the groups \rmph(X,Y)\rmph(X, Y) and \rmsph(X,Y)\rmsph(X, Y) for pairs (X,Y)(X,Y) to which the formula or existing methods do not apply. In particular, we calculate the groups \rmph(X,Y)\rmph(X,Y) and \rmsph(X,Y)\rmsph(X,Y) for pairs (X,Y)(X,Y) such that XX is the classifying space BGBG of a compact Lie group GG and YY is a highly connected cover YnY' \langle n \rangle of a nilpotent finite complex YY' or the quotient \gbb/H\gbb / H of \gbb=U,O\gbb = U, O by a compact Lie group HH.

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@article{arxiv.2004.00290,
  title  = {Phantom maps and fibrations},
  author = {Hiroshi Kihara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.00290},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages

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