A Rational Torsion Invariant

DOI10.2307/2047255zbMath0646.57023OpenAlexW4230724928MaRDI QIDQ3790339

John H. Ewing, Peter Loeffler, Erik Kjaer Pedersen

Publication date: 1988

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2047255

zbMATH Keywords

Reidemeister torsionexterior algebralinking numberrational homotopy equivalencealgebra automorphismrational cohomology algebraspace of finite typemultiplicative Euler characteristicnilpotent space with finite fundamental groupobstruction to the existence of a free circle actionon odd dimensional generatorsrational homotopy spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational homotopy theory (55P62) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10) Equivariant homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55P91) Wall finiteness obstruction for CW-complexes (57Q12) Compact groups of homeomorphisms (57S10)

Cites Work

• Finitely dominated nilpotent spaces
• On the Normal Bundle of a Sphere Imbedded in Euclidean Space

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