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Publications and source records attributed to Wojciech Dorabiala.
In a recent work Malkiewich and Merling proposed a definition of the equivariant $K$-theory of spaces for spaces equipped with an action of a finite group. We show that the fixed points of this spectrum admit a tom Dieck-type splitting. We also show that this splitting is compatible with the splitting of the equivariant suspension spectrum. The first of these results has been obtained independently by John Rognes.
Given a unipotent bundle of smooth manifolds we construct its secondary transfer map and show that this map determines the higher smooth torsion of the bundle. This approach to higher torsion provides a new perspective on some of its properties. In particular it yields in a natural way a formula for torsion of a composition of two bundles.
Given a fixed object $A$ in a suitable pointed simplicial model category $\C$, we study the problem of recovering the target $Y$ from the pointed mapping space \w{\mapa(A,Y)} (up to $A$-equivalence). We describe a recognition principle, modelled on the classical ones for loop spaces, but using the more general notion of an \emph{\Ama[.]} It has an associated transfinite procedure for recovering \w{\CWA Y} from \w[,]{\mapa(A,Y)} inspired by Dror-Farjoun's construction of \ww{\CWA{}}-approximations.
We verify the Becker-Shultz axioms characterizing the Becker-Gottlieb transfer $τ$ for the composite of the algebraic K-theory transfer of any perfect fibration followed by the trace map. As a consequence, for any compact ANR fibration (those considered by Becker-Shultz), $τ$ is homotopy equivalent to the composite of the algebraic K-theory transfer followed by the trace map. Furthermore, if these same axioms (including strong additivity) could be shown to extend to characterizing $τ$ for arbitrary perfect fibrations, our homotopy equivalence extends to the case of arbitrary perfect fibrations as well.
We show that the smooth torsion of bundles of manifolds constructed by Dwyer, Weiss, and Williams satisfies the axioms for higher torsion developed by Igusa. As a consequence we obtain that the smooth Dwyer-Weiss-Williams torsion is proportional to the higher torsion of Igusa and Klein.
We show that if A is a simply connected, finite, pointed CW-complex then the mapping spaces Map(A, -) are preserved by the localization functors only if A has the rational homotopy type of a wedge of spheres of a fixed dimension.
We give a construction of a torsion invariant of bundles of smooth manifolds which is based on the work of Dwyer, Weiss and Williams on smooth structures on fibrations.
Dwyer, Weiss, and Williams have recently defined the notions of parametrized topological Euler characteristic and parametrized topological Reidemeister torsion which are invariants of bundles of compact topological manifolds. We show that these invariants satisfy additivity formulas paralleling the additive properties of the classical Euler characteristic and Reidemeister torsion of finite CW-complexes.