Lie-model for Thom spaces of tangent bundles

Félix, Yves; Oprea, John; Tanré, Daniel

doi:10.1090/proc/12829

Lie-model for Thom spaces of tangent bundles
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Abstract:

We describe the rational homotopy type of Thom spaces and use this information to create a Quillen Lie-model in the case of the tangent bundle of a closed, oriented, simply-connected manifold. Examples are given.

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