{ "id": "1408.2010", "version": "v2", "published": "2014-08-09T02:52:09.000Z", "updated": "2014-09-10T04:38:24.000Z", "title": "Mapping spaces from projective spaces", "authors": [ "Mitsunobu Tsutaya" ], "comment": "25 pages, 3 figures; made many corrections and changes, and added Figure 3", "categories": [ "math.AT" ], "abstract": "We denote the $n$-th projective space of a topological monoid $G$ by $B_nG$ and the classifying space by $BG$. Let $G$ be a topological monoid of pointed homotopy type of a CW complex and $G'$ a grouplike topological monoid. We prove the weak equivalence between the pointed mapping space $\\mathrm{Map}_0(B_nG,BG)$ and the space of all $A_n$-maps from $G$ to $G'$. This fact has several applications. As the first application, we show that the connecting map $G\\rightarrow\\mathrm{Map}_0(B_nG,BG)$ of the evaluation fiber sequence $\\mathrm{Map}_0(B_nG,BG)\\rightarrow\\mathrm{Map}(B_nG,BG)\\rightarrow BG$ is delooped. As other applications, we consider higher homotopy commutativity, $A_n$-types of gauge groups and $T_k^f$-spaces by Iwase--Mimura--Oda--Yoon.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-08-09T02:52:09.000Z", "abstract": "We denote the $n$-th projective space of a topological monoid $G$ by $B_nG$ and the classifying space by $BG$. Let $G$ be a topological monoid of pointed homotopy type of a CW complex and $G'$ a grouplike topological monoid. We prove the weak equivalence between the pointed mapping space $\\mathrm{Map}_0(B_nG,BG)$ and the space of all $A_n$-maps from $G$ to $G'$. This fact has several applications. As the first application, we show that the evaluation fiber sequence $\\mathrm{Map}_0(B_nG,BG)\\rightarrow\\mathrm{Map}(B_nG,BG)\\rightarrow BG$ extends to the right. As other applications, we consider higher homotopy commutativity, $A_n$-types of gauge groups and $T_k^f$-spaces by Iwase--Mimura--Oda--Yoon.", "comment": "20 pages, 2 figures", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v2", "updated": "2014-09-10T04:38:24.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "54C35", "18D50", "55P45" ], "keywords": [ "mapping space", "topological monoid", "evaluation fiber sequence", "higher homotopy commutativity", "cw complex" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 25, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }