diff -r d363611b1f59 -r 5ab0e6f0d89e text/evmap.tex --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/text/evmap.tex Fri Jun 05 16:10:37 2009 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@ +%!TEX root = ../blob1.tex + +Let $CD_*(X, Y)$ denote $C_*(\Diff(X \to Y))$, the singular chain complex of +the space of diffeomorphisms +\nn{or homeomorphisms} +between the $n$-manifolds $X$ and $Y$ (extending a fixed diffeomorphism $\bd X \to \bd Y$). +For convenience, we will permit the singular cells generating $CD_*(X, Y)$ to be more general +than simplices --- they can be based on any linear polyhedron. +\nn{be more restrictive here? does more need to be said?} +We also will use the abbreviated notation $CD_*(X) \deq CD_*(X, X)$. + +\begin{prop} \label{CDprop} +For $n$-manifolds $X$ and $Y$ there is a chain map +\eq{ + e_{XY} : CD_*(X, Y) \otimes \bc_*(X) \to \bc_*(Y) . +} +On $CD_0(X, Y) \otimes \bc_*(X)$ it agrees with the obvious action of $\Diff(X, Y)$ on $\bc_*(X)$ +(Proposition (\ref{diff0prop})). +For any splittings $X = X_1 \cup X_2$ and $Y = Y_1 \cup Y_2$, +the following diagram commutes up to homotopy +\eq{ \xymatrix{ + CD_*(X, Y) \otimes \bc_*(X) \ar[r]^{e_{XY}} & \bc_*(Y) \\ + CD_*(X_1, Y_1) \otimes CD_*(X_2, Y_2) \otimes \bc_*(X_1) \otimes \bc_*(X_2) + \ar@/_4ex/[r]_{e_{X_1Y_1} \otimes e_{X_2Y_2}} \ar[u]^{\gl \otimes \gl} & + \bc_*(Y_1) \otimes \bc_*(Y_2) \ar[u]_{\gl} +} } +Any other map satisfying the above two properties is homotopic to $e_X$. +\end{prop} + +\nn{need to rewrite for self-gluing instead of gluing two pieces together} + +\nn{Should say something stronger about uniqueness. +Something like: there is +a contractible subcomplex of the complex of chain maps +$CD_*(X) \otimes \bc_*(X) \to \bc_*(X)$ (0-cells are the maps, 1-cells are homotopies, etc.), +and all choices in the construction lie in the 0-cells of this +contractible subcomplex. +Or maybe better to say any two choices are homotopic, and +any two homotopies and second order homotopic, and so on.} + +\nn{Also need to say something about associativity. +Put it in the above prop or make it a separate prop? +I lean toward the latter.} +\medskip + +The proof will occupy the remainder of this section. +\nn{unless we put associativity prop at end} + +Without loss of generality, we will assume $X = Y$. + +\medskip + +Let $f: P \times X \to X$ be a family of diffeomorphisms and $S \sub X$. +We say that {\it $f$ is supported on $S$} if $f(p, x) = f(q, x)$ for all +$x \notin S$ and $p, q \in P$. Equivalently, $f$ is supported on $S$ if there is a family of diffeomorphisms $f' : P \times S \to S$ and a `background' +diffeomorphism $f_0 : X \to X$ so that +\begin{align} + f(p,s) & = f_0(f'(p,s)) \;\;\;\; \mbox{for}\; (p, s) \in P\times S \\ +\intertext{and} + f(p,x) & = f_0(x) \;\;\;\; \mbox{for}\; (p, x) \in {P \times (X \setmin S)}. +\end{align} +Note that if $f$ is supported on $S$ then it is also supported on any $R \sup S$. + +Let $\cU = \{U_\alpha\}$ be an open cover of $X$. +A $k$-parameter family of diffeomorphisms $f: P \times X \to X$ is +{\it adapted to $\cU$} if there is a factorization +\eq{ + P = P_1 \times \cdots \times P_m +} +(for some $m \le k$) +and families of diffeomorphisms +\eq{ + f_i : P_i \times X \to X +} +such that +\begin{itemize} +\item each $f_i$ is supported on some connected $V_i \sub X$; +\item the sets $V_i$ are mutually disjoint; +\item each $V_i$ is the union of at most $k_i$ of the $U_\alpha$'s, +where $k_i = \dim(P_i)$; and +\item $f(p, \cdot) = g \circ f_1(p_1, \cdot) \circ \cdots \circ f_m(p_m, \cdot)$ +for all $p = (p_1, \ldots, p_m)$, for some fixed $g \in \Diff(X)$. +\end{itemize} +A chain $x \in CD_k(X)$ is (by definition) adapted to $\cU$ if it is the sum +of singular cells, each of which is adapted to $\cU$. + +(Actually, in this section we will only need families of diffeomorphisms to be +{\it weakly adapted} to $\cU$, meaning that the support of $f$ is contained in the union +of at most $k$ of the $U_\alpha$'s.) + +\begin{lemma} \label{extension_lemma} +Let $x \in CD_k(X)$ be a singular chain such that $\bd x$ is adapted to $\cU$. +Then $x$ is homotopic (rel boundary) to some $x' \in CD_k(X)$ which is adapted to $\cU$. +Furthermore, one can choose the homotopy so that its support is equal to the support of $x$. +\end{lemma} + +The proof will be given in Section \ref{sec:localising}. + +\medskip + +Before diving into the details, we outline our strategy for the proof of Proposition \ref{CDprop}. + +Let $p$ be a singular cell in $CD_k(X)$ and $b$ be a blob diagram in $\bc_*(X)$. +Suppose that there exists $V \sub X$ such that +\begin{enumerate} +\item $V$ is homeomorphic to a disjoint union of balls, and +\item $\supp(p) \cup \supp(b) \sub V$. +\end{enumerate} +Let $W = X \setmin V$, and let $V' = p(V)$ and $W' = p(W)$. +We then have a factorization +\[ + p = \gl(q, r), +\] +where $q \in CD_k(V, V')$ and $r' \in CD_0(W, W')$. +According to the commutative diagram of the proposition, we must have +\[ + e_X(p) = e_X(\gl(q, r)) = gl(e_{VV'}(q), e_{WW'}(r)) . +\] +\nn{need to add blob parts to above} +Since $r$ is a plain, 0-parameter family of diffeomorphisms, +\medskip + +\nn{to be continued....} + + +%\nn{say something about associativity here} + + + + +