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13 - Verallgemeinerte Biasinvarianten und ihre Berechnung

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

Michael Atkinson
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Nick Gilbert
Affiliation:
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
James Howie
Affiliation:
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Steve Linton
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Edmund Robertson
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
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Abstract. The bias-invariant was derived from congruences of the second homology of a 2-complex modulo spherical elements and lead to distinctions of homotopy types in cases where the (abelian) fundamental group and the Euler characteristic coincide.

But, in general, the determination of the second homotopy group and of its image under the Hurewicz map are undecidable. We hence generalize the bias construction to congruences modulo H2-mages of coverings which correspond to characteristic subgroups of the fundamental group.

In the case of the commutator subgroup, we get computable invariants for distinctions of homotopy types, where it may be impossible to calculate the classical bias moduli.

EINLEITUNG

Die Unterscheidung verschiedener Homotopietypen von 2-Komplexen K, L mit gleichem, endlich abelschem π1 und minimaler Eulerscher Charakteristik durch den Unterzeichneten und Sieradski geschah durch ein Kongruenzargument modulo sphärischer Elemente in den 2. Homologiegruppen: Nicht immer gibt es eine (stetige) Abbildung KL, die in π1 und H2 Isomorphismen induziert (Homologieäquivalenz). Allgemein kann man fragen, wann sich ein Isomorphismus von H21) zu einem geometrisch induzierten Isomorphismus der 2. Homologie der Komplexe hochheben läβt und erhält die sogenannte Biasinvariante (§2), siehe Dyer und Latiolais. Für deren praktische Berechnung entsteht jedoch die Aufgabe, aus den Komplexen, beziehungsweise aus von ihnen abgelesenen π1-Präsentationen, die Untergruppe Σ2 der spharischen Zyklen in H2(K), das heiβt, das π2-Bild zu bestimmen. Tatsächlich liegt hier ein im allgemeinen unentscheidbares Problem vor.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2000

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