nLab twisted cohomotopy

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Twisted cohomotopy is the twisted cohomology-variant of the the non-abelian cohomology-theory cohomotopy, represented by homotopy types of n-spheres.

The coefficients/twist for twisted cohomotopy are spherical fibrations, and cocycles are sections of these. For those spherical fibrations arising as unit sphere bundles of real vector bundles the twist may be understood as given by the J-homomorphism.

Properties

Various classical theorems of differential topology are secretly theorems about twisted cohomotopy

table grabbed from FSS 19b

Twisted Pontrjagin theorem

The twisted Pontrjagin theorem relates twisted cohomotopy with cobordism classes of normally twisted-framed submanifolds.

Twisted May-Segal theorem

The May-Segal theorem has a twisted generalization:

Proposition

Let

  1. X nX^n be a smooth closed manifold of dimension nn;

  2. 1k1 \leq k \in \mathbb{N} a positive natural number.

Then the scanning map constitutes a weak homotopy equivalence

Maps /BO(n)(X n,S n def+k trivO(n))a J-twisted cohomotopy spacescanning mapConf(X n,S k)aconfiguration spaceof points \underset{ \color{blue} { \phantom{a} \atop \text{ J-twisted cohomotopy space}} }{ Maps_{{}_{/B O(n)}} \Big( X^n \;,\; S^{ \mathbf{n}_{def} + \mathbf{k}_{\mathrm{triv}} } \!\sslash\! O(n) \Big) } \underoverset {\simeq} { \color{blue} \text{scanning map} } {\longleftarrow} \underset{ \mathclap{ \color{blue} { \phantom{a} \atop { \text{configuration space} \atop \text{of points} } } } }{ Conf \big( X^n, S^k \big) }

between

  1. the J-twisted (n+k)-cohomotopy space of X nX^n, hence the space of sections of the (n+k)(n + k)-spherical fibration over XX which is associated via the tangent bundle by the O(n)-action on S n+k=S( n× k+1)S^{n+k} = S(\mathbb{R}^{n} \times \mathbb{R}^{k+1})

  2. the configuration space of points on X nX^n with labels in S kS^k.

(Bödigheimer 87, Prop. 2, following McDuff 75)

Remark

In the special case that the closed manifold X nX^n in Prop. is parallelizable, hence that its tangent bundle is trivializable, the statement of Prop. reduces to this:

Let

  1. X nX^n be a parallelizable closed manifold of dimension nn;

  2. 1k1 \leq k \in \mathbb{N} a positive natural number.

Then the scanning map constitutes a weak homotopy equivalence

Maps(X n,S n+k)a cohomotopy spacescanning mapConf(X n,S k)aconfiguration spaceof points \underset{ \color{blue} { \phantom{a} \atop \text{ cohomotopy space}} }{ Maps \Big( X^n \;,\; S^{ n + k } \Big) } \underoverset {\simeq} { \color{blue} \text{scanning map} } {\longleftarrow} \underset{ \mathclap{ \color{blue} { \phantom{a} \atop { \text{configuration space} \atop \text{of points} } } } }{ Conf \big( X^n, S^k \big) }

between

  1. (n+k)(n+k)-cohomotopy space of X nX^n, hence the space of maps from XX to the (n+k)-sphere

  2. the configuration space of points on X nX^n with labels in S kS^k.

Poincaré–Hopf theorem

See at

Equivariant Hopf degree theorem

On flat orbifolds, twisted cohomotopy becomes equivariant cohomotopy and the twisted Hopf degree theorem becomes the

flavours of
Cohomotopy
cohomology theory
cohomology
(full or rational)
equivariant cohomology
(full or rational)
non-abelian cohomologyCohomotopy
(full or rational)
equivariant Cohomotopy
twisted cohomology
(full or rational)
twisted Cohomotopytwisted equivariant Cohomotopy
stable cohomology
(full or rational)
stable Cohomotopyequivariant stable Cohomotopy
differential cohomologydifferential Cohomotopyequivariant differential cohomotopy
persistent cohomologypersistent Cohomotopypersistent equivariant Cohomotopy

References

The concept is implicit in classical texts on differential topology, for instance

Discussion of the twisted Pontrjagin theorem and of twisted stable cohomotopy (framed cobordism cohomology theory):

Discussion of unstable twisted Cohomotopy, with application to flux quantization of supergravity C-field (“Hypothesis H”):

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