Lie-model for Thom spaces of tangent bundles
Authors:
Yves Félix, John Oprea and Daniel Tanré
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 144 (2016), 1829-1840
MSC (2010):
Primary 55P62; Secondary 55R25
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/12829
Published electronically:
August 12, 2015
MathSciNet review:
3451257
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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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Yves Félix
Affiliation:
Département de Mathématiques, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
Email:
yves.felix@uclouvain.be
John Oprea
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Email:
j.oprea@csuohio.edu
Daniel Tanré
Affiliation:
Département de Mathématiques, Université de Lille 1, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France
Email:
Daniel.Tanre@univ-lille1.fr
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/12829
Received by editor(s):
September 10, 2014
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
May 9, 2015
Published electronically:
August 12, 2015
Additional Notes:
The first author was partially supported by the MICINN grant MTM2010-18089.
The second author was partially supported by a grant from the Simons Foundation (#244393).
The third author was partially supported by the MICINN grant MTM2010-18089, the ANR-11-BS01-002-01 “HOGT" and the ANR-11-LABX-0007-01 “CEMPI”
Communicated by:
Michael A. Mandell
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