Spaces of maps into classifying spaces for equivariant crossed complexes, II: The general topological group case. Abstract The results of a previous paper [3] on the equivariant homotopy theory of crossed complexes are generalised from the case of a discrete group to general topological groups. The principal new ingredient necessary for this is an analysis of homotopy coherence theory for cross...

The homotopy type and homotopy groups of some spectra TAFGU of topological automorphic forms associated to a unitary similitude group GU of type (1, 1) are explicitly described in quasi-split cases. The spectrum TAFGU is shown to be closely related to the spectrum TMF in these cases, and homotopy groups of some of these spectra are explicitly computed.

A b str act . Let Σ be the image of a topological embedding of Sn−2 into Sn. In this paper the homotopy groups of the complement Sn−Σ are studied. In contrast with the situation in the smooth and piecewise linear categories, it is shown that the first nonstandard homotopy group of the complement of such a topological knot can occur in any dimension in the range 1 through n − 2. If the first non...

The cohomology theory of groups arose from both topological and algebraic sources. The starting point for the topological aspect of the theory was a 1936 paper by Hurewicz [7], in which he introduced aspherical spaces. These are spaces X such that πn(X) = 0 for n 6= 1. (Hurewicz had introduced higher homotopy groups just one year earlier, and he was now trying to understand the spaces with the ...

We study diagrams associated with a finite simplicial complex K, in various algebraic and topological categories. We relate their colimits to familiar structures in algebra, combinatorics, geometry and topology. These include: right-angled Artin and Coxeter groups (and their complex analogues, which we call circulation groups); Stanley-Reisner algebras and coalgebras; Davis and Januszkiewicz's ...

We study diagrams associated with a finite simplicial complex K, in various algebraic and topological categories. We relate their colimits to familiar structures in algebra, combinatorics, geometry and topology. These include: right-angled Artin and Coxeter groups (and their complex analogues, which we call circulation groups); Stanley-Reisner algebras and coalgebras; Davis and Januszkiewicz’s ...

We construct a model structure on simplicial profinite sets such that the homotopy groups carry a natural profinite structure. This yields a rigid profinite completion functor for spaces and pro-spaces. One motivation is the étale homotopy theory of schemes in which higher profinite étale homotopy groups fit well with the étale fundamental group which is always profinite. We show that the profi...

1. Lie groups, homomorphisms and linear representations. Irreducible representations. 2. Maximal tori in compact Lie groups. 3. Characters of representations. Ring of virtual characters. The Weyl theorem. 4. Actions of Lie groups. Homogeneous spaces (orbits) and equivariant maps. 5. Classifying spaces of topological groups and maps induced by homomorphisms. 6. Homotopy classification of maps be...