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Topology of cell complexes and manifolds, classification of manifolds (e.g. smoothing, surgery), low dimensional topology (e.g. knot theory, invariants of 4-manifolds), embedding theory, combinatorial and PL topology, geometric group theory, infinite dimensional topology (e.g. Hilbert cube manifolds, theory of retracts).
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isotopy equivalence (topological meaning) between $CW$-complexes
Let $M$ and $N$ be $CW$-complexes.
Definition. (different from the isotopy notion in geometry of submanifolds). A (topological) isotopy is a fibre-wise continuous map
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F: M\times [0,1]\longright …
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cohomology ring of compact submanifolds of Euclidean spaces
Suppose we have a compact $m$-dimensional submanifold $M$ of $\mathbb{R}^N$ and we want to know the cohomology ring $H^*(M;\mathbb{Z})$.
Let $\epsilon>0$ and a $m$-dimensional finite simplicial com …
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packing numbers of the unit balls in Euclidean spaces and the dimensions
Let $k$, $m$ and $n$ be positive integers. Let $r$ be a positive real number.
The $n$-th ordered $r$-disk configuration space on the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{mk}$ is
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F_r(\mathbb{R}^{mk} …
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cohomology of classifying space of permutation groups
Let $\Sigma_k$ be the permutation group of order $k$.
Let $r: \Sigma_k\to GL(k)$ be the regular representation by permuting the order of the standard basis of $\mathbb{R}^n$.
Let $\rho: B\Sigma_k\t …
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configuration spaces of real projective space
Let $F(\mathbb{R}P^n,k)$ be the $k$-th ordered configuration space on $\mathbb{R}P^n$. In http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04258, the cohomology ring
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H^*(F(\mathbb{R}P^n,k);R)$$
is obtained for any commu …
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contractible configuration spaces
Let $F(M,k)=\{(x_1,\cdots,x_k)\mid x_1\cdots,x_k\in M,x_i\neq x_j, \text{ for } i\neq j \}$. It is known that $F(\mathbb{R}^\infty,k)$ is contractible for each $k$.
My question: is $F(S^\infty,k)$ …
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permutation action on cohomology of Stiefel manifolds
Let $V_k(\mathbb{R}^n)$ be Stiefel manifolds.
In the paper The cohomology rings of real Stiefel manifolds with integer coefficients, Martin Čadek, Mamoru Mimura, and Jiří Vanžura, J. Math. Kyoto …
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cohomology ring of configuration spaces
In the paper configuration spaces: applications to Gelfand-Fuks cohomology, by F. Cohen and L. Taylor, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 1978, theorem 1, I did not find the proof. What method did the author use …
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Chern classes of three (two) dimensional complex vector bundles
Let $M$ be a manifold.
Let $F(M,3)=\{(m_1,m_2,m_3)\mid m_1, m_2, m_3\in M, m_i\neq m_j, \text{ for any } i\neq j\}$.
Let $S_3$ be the symmetric group of order $3$.
Let $S_3$ act on $F(M,3)$ by $\ …
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unordered configuration space of pointed space
Let $(X,*)$ be a pointed topological space.
Let $F(X,k)=\{(x_1,\cdots,x_k)\in X^k\mid \forall i\neq j: x_i\neq x_j, \}$.
Let $F(X,k)/S_k$ be the $k$-th unordered configuration space.
Is there an i …
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classifying space of orthogonal groups
Let $O(n)$ be the $n$-th orthogonal group and $O$ be the direct limit of $O(n)$ with respect to $n$. Let $BO(n)$ and $BO$ be the classifying spaces.
Question:
Why $BO$ is an $H$-space? My supervisor …
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self-Whitney sum of the canonical vector bundle on Grassmannians
Let $G_{k}(\mathbb{R}^N)$ be the Grassmannian manifold consisting of $k$-subspaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$. There is a canonical $k$-dimensional vector bundle
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\gamma_{k,N}: \mathbb{R}^k\longrightarrow E …
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torsion part of the cohomology module of configuration spaces of manifolds
Let $M$ be a manifold and $C_n(M)$ the $n$-th unordered configuration space consisting of unordered $n$-tuples of distinct points in $M$. The mod $p$ homology module, $p$ prime, and the rational homol …
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embedding of quaternionic projective spaces
Let $\mathbb{H}P^m$ be the $m$-th quaternionic projective space. What is the smallest integer $N$ such that there exists an embedding
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\mathbb{H}P^2\longrightarrow \mathbb{R}^N?
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Are there any ref …
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quotient space of Eilenberg-MacLane space
Let $\pi$ be a group and $K(\pi,1)$ the Eilenberg-MacLane space. Let $G$ be a finite group acting on $K(\pi,1)$ such that the following is a covering map
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K(\pi,1)\longrightarrow K(\pi,1)/G.
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Ques …