Transfer maps in generalized group homology via submanifolds

  • Martin Nitsche

    Institut für Geometrie, TU Dresden, Germany
  • Thomas Schick

    Mathematisches Institut, Universität Göttingen, Germany
  • Rudolf Zeidler

    Mathematisches Institut, WWU Münster, Germany
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Abstract

Let NMN \subset M be a submanifold embedding of spin manifolds of some codimension k1k \geq 1. A classical result of Gromov and Lawson, refined by Hanke, Pape and Schick, states that MM does not admit a metric of positive scalar curvature if k=2k = 2 and the Dirac operator of NN has non-trivial index, provided that suitable geometric conditions on NMN \subset M are satisfied. In the cases k=1k=1 and k=2k=2, Zeidler and Kubota, respectively, established more systematic results: There exists a transfer KO(Cπ1M)KOk(Cπ1N)\text{KO}_\ast(\text{C}^{\ast} \pi_1 M)\to \text{KO}_{\ast - k}(\text{C}^\ast \pi_1 N) which maps the index class of MM to the index class of NN. The main goal of this article is to construct analogous transfer maps E(Bπ1M)Ek(Bπ1N)E_\ast(\text{B}\pi_1M) \to E_{\ast-k}(\text{B}\pi_1N) for different generalized homology theories EE and suitable submanifold embeddings. The design criterion is that it is compatible with the transfer E(M)Ek(N)E_\ast(M) \to E_{\ast-k}(N) induced by the inclusion NMN \subset M for a chosen orientation on the normal bundle. Under varying restrictions on homotopy groups and the normal bundle, we construct transfers in the following cases in particular: In ordinary homology, it works for all codimensions. This slightly generalizes a result of Engel and simplifies his proof. In complex K-homology, we achieve it for k3k \leq 3. For k2k \leq 2, we have a transfer on the equivariant KO-homology of the classifying space for proper actions.

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Martin Nitsche, Thomas Schick, Rudolf Zeidler, Transfer maps in generalized group homology via submanifolds. Doc. Math. 26 (2021), pp. 947–979

DOI 10.4171/DM/833