# HG changeset patch # User Kevin Walker # Date 1312996094 21600 # Node ID 0adb2c01388032c680e059bd63f9bc5d510c5daf # Parent 92bf1b37af9b24fe08ee84c5b81a180f14a63871 more work on fam-o-homeo lemma diff -r 92bf1b37af9b -r 0adb2c013880 text/appendixes/famodiff.tex --- a/text/appendixes/famodiff.tex Wed Aug 10 08:50:38 2011 -0600 +++ b/text/appendixes/famodiff.tex Wed Aug 10 11:08:14 2011 -0600 @@ -236,14 +236,13 @@ Since $X$ is compact, we may assume without loss of generality that the cover $\cU$ is finite. Let $\cU = \{U_\alpha\}$, $1\le \alpha\le N$. -We will need some wiggle room, so for each $\alpha$ choose a large finite number of open sets +We will need some wiggle room, so for each $\alpha$ choose $2N$ additional open sets \[ - U_\alpha = U_\alpha^0 \supset U_\alpha^1 \supset U_\alpha^2 \supset \cdots + U_\alpha = U_\alpha^0 \supset U_\alpha^\frac12 \supset U_\alpha^1 \supset U_\alpha^\frac32 \supset \cdots \supset U_\alpha^N \] -so that for each fixed $i$ the sets $\{U_\alpha^i\}$ are an open cover of $X$, and also so that -the closure $\ol{U_\alpha^i}$ is compact and $U_\alpha^{i-1} \supset \ol{U_\alpha^i}$. -\nn{say specifically how many we need?} - +so that for each fixed $i$ the set $\cU^i = \{U_\alpha^i\}$ is an open cover of $X$, and also so that +the closure $\ol{U_\alpha^i}$ is compact and $U_\alpha^{i-\frac12} \supset \ol{U_\alpha^i}$. +%\nn{say specifically how many we need?} Let $P$ be some $k$-dimensional polyhedron and $f:P\to \Homeo(X)$. After subdividing $P$, we may assume that there exists $g\in \Homeo(X)$ @@ -252,8 +251,35 @@ The sense of ``small" we mean will be explained below. It depends only on $\cU$ and the choice of $U_\alpha^i$'s. -We may assume, inductively, that the restriction of $f$ to $\bd P$ is adapted to $\cU$. +We may assume, inductively, that the restriction of $f$ to $\bd P$ is adapted to $\cU^N$. +So $\bd P = \sum Q_\beta$, and the support of $f$ restricted to $Q_\beta$ is $V_\beta^N$, the union of $k-1$ of +the $U_\alpha^N$'s. Define $V_\beta^i \sup V_\beta^N$ to be the corresponding union of $k-1$ +of the $U_\alpha^i$'s. + +Define +\[ + W_j^i = U_1^i \cup U_2^i \cup \cdots \cup U_j^i . +\] +We will construct a sequence of maps $f_i : P\to \Homeo(X)$, for $i = 0, 1, \ldots, N$, with the following properties: +\begin{itemize} +\item[(A)] $f_0 = f$; +\item[(B)] $f_i = g$ on $W_i^i$; +\item[(C)] $f_i$ restricted to $Q_\beta$ has support contained in $V_\beta^{N-i}$; and +\item[(D)] there is a homotopy $F_i : P\times I \to \Homeo(X)$ from $f_{i-1}$ to $f_i$ such that the +support of $F_i$ restricted to $Q_\beta\times I$ is contained in $U_i^i\cup V_\beta^{N-i}$. +\nn{check this when done writing} +\end{itemize} + +Once we have the $F_i$'s as in (D), we can finish the argument as follows. +Assemble the $F_i$'s into a map $F: P\times [0,N] \to \Homeo(X)$. +View $F$ as a homotopy rel boundary from $F$ restricted to $P\times\{0\}$ (which is just $f$ by (A)) +to $F$ restricted to $\bd P \times [0,N] \cup P\times\{N\}$. +$F$ restricted to $\bd P \times [0,N]$ is adapted to $\cU$ by (D). +$F$ restricted to $P\times\{N\}$ is constant on $W_N^N = X$ by (B), and therefore is, {\it a fortiori}, also adapted +to $\cU$. + +\nn{resume revising here} Theorem 5.1 of \cite{MR0283802}, applied $N$ times, allows us to choose a homotopy $h:P\times [0,N] \to \Homeo(X)$ with the following properties: