We calculate the annihilator of the ku-toral class for the p-groups Z_{p^2} X Z_{p^k}$ with k > 2. This allows us to give a description of the ku-homology of these groups.
We calculate the ku-homology of the groups Z/p^n X Z/p and Z/p^2 X Z/p^2. We prove that for this kind of groups the ku-homology contains all the complex bordism information. We construct a set of generators of the annihilator of the ku-toral class. These elements also generates the annihilator of the BP-toral class.
We define the orbit category for transitive topological groupoids and their equivariant CW-complexes. By using these constructions we define equivariant Bredon homology and cohomology for actions of transitive topological groupoids. We show how these theories can be obtained by looking at the action of a single isotropy group on a fiber of the anchor map, extending equivariant results for compact group actions. We also show how this extension from a single isotropy group to the entire groupoid action can be applied to the structure of principal bundles and classifying spaces.
Let G be a compact Lie group. By work of Chataur and Menichi, the homology of the space of free loops in the classifying space of G is known to be the value on the circle in a homological conformal field theory. This means in particular that it admits operations parameterized by homology classes of classifying spaces of diffeomorphism groups of surfaces. Here we present a radical extension of this result, giving a new construction in which diffeomorphisms are replaced with homotopy equivalences, and surfaces with boundary are replaced with arbitrary spaces homotopy equivalent to finite graphs. The result is a novel kind of field theory which is related to both the diffeomorphism groups of surfaces and the automorphism groups of free groups with boundaries. Our work shows that the algebraic structures in string topology of classifying spaces can be brought into line with, and in fact far exceed, those available in string topology of manifolds. For simplicity, we restrict to the characteristic 2 case. The generalization to arbitrary characteristic will be addressed in a subsequent paper.
We study the mod-$ell$ homotopy type of classifying spaces for commutativity, $B(mathbb{Z}, G)$, at a prime $ell$. We show that the mod-$ell$ homology of $B(mathbb{Z}, G)$ depends on the mod-$ell$ homotopy type of $BG$ when $G$ is a compact connected Lie group, in the sense that a mod-$ell$ homology isomorphism $BG to BH$ for such groups induces a mod-$ell$ homology isomorphism $B(mathbb{Z}, G) to B(mathbb{Z}, H)$. In order to prove this result, we study a presentation of $B(mathbb{Z}, G)$ as a homotopy colimit over a topological poset of closed abelian subgroups, expanding on an idea of Adem and Gomez. We also study the relationship between the mod-$ell$ type of a Lie group $G(mathbb{C})$ and the locally finite group $G(bar{mathbb{F}}_p)$ where $G$ is a Chevalley group. We see that the naive analogue for $B(mathbb{Z}, G)$ of the celebrated Friedlander--Mislin result cannot hold, but we show that it does hold after taking the homotopy quotient of a $G$ action on $B(mathbb{Z}, G)$.
Among the generalizations of Serres theorem on the homotopy groups of a finite complex we isolate the one proposed by Dwyer and Wilkerson. Even though the spaces they consider must be 2-connected, we show that it can be used to both recover known results and obtain new theorems about p-completed classifying spaces.