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Attaching cells to finite complexes, with an application to elliptic spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Geoffrey M. L. Powell
Affiliation:
The Mathematical Institute, 24–29 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LB

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Suppose that f; SnE is a continuous map from the n-sphere to a 1-connected CW complex E, with n ≥ 2. One may suppose that f is a cofibration, so that there is a cofibration sequence , with f the attaching map of the cell en+1. Consider the homotopy fibre F of the inclusion EB, so that there is a homotopy fibration let δ; ΩBF be the connectant of this fibration. The following definition is given by Félix and Lemaire in [11]: Definition 1·1. Suppose that k is a field of characteristic p ≥ 0. The attaching map f:SnE is: 1. p-inert if is surjective; 2. p-lazy if is zero; where H˜ denotes reduced homology and coefficients are taken in the field k.

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1996

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