Year: 2005
Type: dissertation
Abstract: There are two natural interpretations of a twist of stable homotopy theory. The first interpretation of a twist is as a nontrivial bundle whose fibre is the stable homotopy category. This kind of radical global twist forms the basis for twisted parametrized stable homotopy theory, which is introduced and explored in Part I of this thesis. The second interpretation of a twist is as a nontrivial bundle whose fibre is a particular element in the stable homotopy category. This milder notion of twisting leads to twisted generalized homology and cohomology and is central to the well established field of parametrized stable homotopy theory. Part II of this thesis concerns a com-putational problem in parametrized stable homotopy, namely the determination of the twisted K-homology of the simple Lie groups. In more detail, the contents of the two parts of the thesis are as follows. Part I: I describe a general framework for twisted forms of parametrized stable homotopy theory. An ordinary parametrized spectrum over a space X is a map from X into the category Spec of spectra; in other words, it is a section of the trivial Spec-
Author: Christopher L. Douglas
Language: English
Subfield: Mathematical Physics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1530778873