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The realization space of an unstable coalgebra

Algebraic Topology 2017-08-17 v3

Abstract

Unstable coalgebras over the Steenrod algebra form a natural target category for singular homology with prime field coefficients. The realization problem asks whether an unstable coalgebra is isomorphic to the homology of a topological space. We study the moduli space of such realizations and give a description of this in terms of cohomological invariants of the unstable coalgebra. This is accomplished by a thorough comparative study of the homotopy theories of cosimplicial unstable coalgebras and of cosimplicial spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1409.0410,
  title  = {The realization space of an unstable coalgebra},
  author = {Georg Biedermann and Georgios Raptis and Manfred Stelzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0410},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

118 pages. Final version ; accepted for publication in Ast\'erisque. The presentation of the material is reorganized and generally improved. More details are added in some proofs and some corrections are made, especially in Section 7 and Appendix A. Some issues concerning basepoints are resolved and the module actions in the spiral exact sequence are explained in detail