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We present a closed model structure for the category of pro-spectra in which the weak equivalences are detected by stable homotopy pro-groups. With some bounded-below assumptions, weak equivalences are also detected by cohomology as in the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel C. Isaksen

We prove that Whitehead's algorithm for solving the automorphism problem in a fixed free group $F_k$ has strongly linear time generic-case complexity. This is done by showing that the ``hard'' part of the algorithm terminates in linear time…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ilya Kapovich , Paul Schupp , Vladimir Shpilrain

Let p be an odd regular prime, and assume that the Lichtenbaum-Quillen conjecture holds for K(Z[1/p]) at p. Then the p-primary homotopy type of the smooth Whitehead spectrum Wh(*) is described. A suspended copy of the cokernel-of-J spectrum…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 John Rognes

We define generalised higher Whitehead maps between polyhedral products. By investigating the interplay between the homotopy-theoretic properties of polyhedral products and the combinatorial properties of simplicial complexes, we describe…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Jelena Grbic , George Simmons , Matthew Staniforth

This paper proves that the functor $C(*)$ that sends pointed, simply-connected CW-complexes to their chain-complexes equipped with diagonals and iterated higher diagonals, determines their integral homotopy type --- even inducing an…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Justin R. Smith

In this article we consider the homotopy theory of stratified spaces through a simplicial point of view. We first consider a model category of filtered simplicial sets over some fixed poset $P$, and show that it is a simplicial…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Sylvain Douteau

We determine the periodic cyclic homology of the Iwahori-Hecke algebras $\Hecke_q$, for $q \in \CC^*$ not a ``proper root of unity.'' (In this paper, by a {\em proper root of unity} we shall mean a root of unity other than 1.) Our method is…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul Baum , Victor Nistor

Let X be a finite CW-complex of dimension q. If its fundamental group $\pi_{1}(X)$ is polycyclic of Hirsch number h>q we show that at least one of the homotopy groups $\pi_{i}(X)$ is not finitely generated. If h=q or h=q-1 the same…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mihai Damian

We compute the collection of CW-complexes in the model category of small categories constructed by Joyal and Tierney. More generally, if $X$ is a connected topological space, we show that the homotopy category of CW-complexes in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Christian Frank , Andrew Salch

We show that small quasicategories embed, both simplicially and 2-categorically, into prederivators defined on arbitrary small categories, so that in some senses prederivators can serve as a model for $(\infty,1)$-categories. The result for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Kevin Arlin

Whitehead products and natural infinite sums are prominent in the higher homotopy groups of the $n$-dimensional infinite earring space $\mathbb{E}_n$ and other locally complicated Peano continua. In this paper, we derive general identities…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Jeremy Brazas

We define an order relation among oriented $PD_4$-complexes. We show that with respect to this relation, two $PD_4$-complexes over the same complex are homotopy equivalent if and only if there is an isometry between the second homology…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Mehmetcik Pamuk , Friedrich Hegenbarth , Dušan Repovš

We give a new solution of the "homotopy periods" problem, as highlighted by Sullivan, which places explicit geometrically meaningful formulae first dating back to Whitehead in the context of Quillen's formalism for rational homotopy theory…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Dev Sinha , Ben Walter

We develop a robust foundation for studying the fundamental group(oid) in discrete homotopy theory, including: equivalent definitions and basic properties, the theory of covering graphs, and the discrete version of the Seifert-van Kampen…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Chris Kapulkin , Udit Mavinkurve

We construct a Spanier-Whitehead type duality functor relating finite $\mathcal{C}$-spectra to finite $\mathcal{C}^{\mathrm{op}}$-spectra and prove that every $\mathcal{C}$-homology theory is given by taking the homotopy groups of a…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Malte Lackmann

For a finite simplicial complex K and a CW-pair (X,A), there is an associated CW-complex Z_K(X,A), known as a polyhedral product. We apply discrete Morse theory to a particular CW-structure on the n-sphere moment-angle complexes Z_K(D^{n},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Vladimir Grujic , Volkmar Welker

In this paper, we study the homotopy groups of a shrinking wedge $X$ of a sequence $\{X_j\}$ of non-simply connected CW-complexes. Using a combination of generalized covering space theory and shape theory, we construct a canonical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Jeremy Brazas

We prove an "abelian, locally compact" Whitehead theorem in fine shape: A fine shape morphism between locally connected finite-dimensional locally compact separable metrizable spaces with trivial $\pi_0$ and $\pi_1$ is a fine shape…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Sergey A. Melikhov

We note that a recent result of the second author yields upper bounds for odd-primary homotopy exponents of compact simple Lie groups which are often quite close to the lower bounds obtained from v_1-periodic homotopy theory.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-04-05 Donald M Davis , Stephen D Theriault

By considering homotopies that preserve the stratification, one obtains a natural notion of homotopy for stratified spaces. In this short note, we introduce invariants of stratified homotopy, the stratified homotopy groups. We show that…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Sylvain Douteau