This course M721 was given in Fall 2019 at Indiana University by Jim Davis. It investigates the algebraic topology of diagrams of spaces: functors from a fixed category to the category of topological spaces, generalizing the notion of a G-space. It is a panoramic view of categories, algebraic topology, simplicial methods, spectra, and algebraic K-theory. Exercises for the course are found here. The basic reference for the course is the paper Davis-Lück, Spaces over a Category and Assembly Maps in Isomorphism Conjectures in K- and L-Theory. Question and comments about the course are welcome.
It will be accessible to anyone who his familiar with algebraic topology at the level of Davis-Kirk, Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology and, in particular, to those familiar with fibrations and cofibrations. Lück has numerous surveys on the subject of isomorphism conjectures on his webpage. Other useful references are May, A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology and Riehl, Category Theory in Context.
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28 plays 0The nonconnective K-spectrum of a small additive category constructed by Pedersen-Weibel, A Nonconnective Delooping of Algebraic K-theory. -
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259 plays 0The first three weeks of the course were not filmed (handwritten notes available upon request). Topics included the definition of a G-CW-complex (built from cells of… -
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55 plays 0One can find a lot of info on Compactly Generated Weak Hausdorff spaces on the web (especially the notes of Strickland), but one can start with the books of May and… -
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20 plays 0Equivariant homology theories were defined in Lück, Chern characters for proper equivariant homology theories and applications to K- and L-theory, but… -
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37 plays 0Lück has several surveys on the Farrell-Jones Conjecture on his website. -
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43 plays 0For homotopy colimits and limits, I like the approach of Davis-Lück the best. The classical reference is Bousfield-Kan, Homotopy Limits, Completions and… -
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51 plays 0The proof of the ladder and gluing lemmas can be found in May-Ponto More Concise Algebraic Topology. -
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35 plays 0References for this material are given in the book by Strom mentioned above as well as Munson-Volic Cubical Homotopy Theory. I don't know the geodesic route to… -
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45 plays 0A good reference for exactness properties of classical colimits and limits is Weibel's book An Introduction to Homological Algebra. -
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