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Uniform and Lipschitz homotopy classes of maps

Author(s): Sol Schwartzman
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 354 (2002), 5039-5047.
MSC (2000): Primary 54E15, 55N10
Posted: August 1, 2002
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Abstract: If $X$ is a compact connected polyhedron, we associate with each uniform homotopy class of uniformly continuous mappings from the real line $R$ into $X$ an element of $H_{1} (X, U/U_{0}),$ where $U$ is the space of uniformly continuous functions from $R$ to $R$ and $U_{0}$ is the subspace of bounded uniformly continuous functions. This map from uniform homotopy classes of functions to $H_{1}(X,U/U_{0})$ is surjective. If $X$ is the $n$-dimensional torus, it is bijective, while if $X$ is a compact orientable surface of genus $>1$, it is not injective.

In higher dimensions we have to consider smooth Lipschitz homotopy classes of smooth Lipschitz maps from suitable Riemannian manifolds $P$ to compact smooth manifolds $X.$ With each such Lipschitz homotopy class we associate an element of $H_{n} (X, B^+/B_{0}^+),$ where $n$ is the dimension of $P,$ $B$ is the space of bounded continuous functions from the positive real axis to $R,$ and $B_{0}^+$ is the set of all $f\in B^+$ such that $\lim_{t \rightarrow \infty} f(t) = 0.$


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Sol Schwartzman
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-02-03107-0
PII: S 0002-9947(02)03107-0
Received by editor(s): April 1, 2000
Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 22, 2002
Posted: August 1, 2002
Copyright of article: Copyright 2002, American Mathematical Society


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