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The finite Thom classifying detector map exists and is continuous
Statement
Assume AC and the construction of Finite Thom classifying detector map, using the single global basis B=⋃{d≥0}B_d and section fixed there. For every r≥2, the initial segment B(r)=⋃{0≤d<r}B_d is finite; for each b∈B_d with d_b=d, the coordinate class m̄_{b,r}∈H̃^{r+d_b}(T_r;F₂) has a based representative f_{r,b}:T_r→K(F₂,r+d_b) representing that class; and the coordinate family uniquely defines a continuous based map f_r:T_r→P_r.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC and the construction of Finite Thom classifying detector map, using the single global basis and the degree-preserving section fixed there; a rank .
The definition fixes the global basis and section and the initial segments , and the freeness theorem makes the lifts a free -basis (Finite Thom classifying detector map, Stable unoriented Thom cohomology is free over the square algebra).
The degreewise constancy lemma identifies each fixed with an actual reduced cohomology class of once , and the degree pieces of are finite-dimensional (Stable universal Thom cohomology is eventually constant in every degree, Degreewise mod-two cohomology of the universal real Thom prespectrum).
Eilenberg–Mac Lane representability turns a reduced cohomology class on a based CW complex into a based homotopy class with an actual representative, and the finite product universal property assembles the coordinate maps into a unique continuous based map (Eilenberg--Mac Lane spaces represent singular cohomology, A map into a product is continuous iff each of its components is; the projections are continuous and open; and each projection is surjective when every factor is nonempty, which for an infinite index set uses the Axiom of Choice); AC underlies the global choices (The Axiom of Choice).
Proof
This initial segment is finite: each Q^d is a quotient of the finite-dimensional M^d, and there are only r degrees in the union. For b∈B_d, the stable coordinate isomorphism M^d→H̃^{r+d}(T_r;F₂) supplies the rank-r class m_{r,b} from the same fixed stable element m_b. Let f_{r,b}:T_r→K(F₂,r+d) classify m_{r,b}, using the published Eilenberg–Mac Lane representability theorem. Set and .
The product is finite, so its coordinate maps define a continuous based map. This is the promised construction from homogeneous free-module generators; the generic representability construction alone would not show the comparison.
Depends on
- Finite Thom classifying detector map
- Stable unoriented Thom cohomology is free over the square algebra
- Degreewise mod-two cohomology of the universal real Thom prespectrum
- Stable universal Thom cohomology is eventually constant in every degree
- Eilenberg--Mac Lane spaces represent singular cohomology
- A map into a product is continuous iff each of its components is; the projections are continuous and open; and each projection is surjective when every factor is nonempty, which for an infinite index set uses the Axiom of Choice
- The Axiom of Choice
- The mod-two square algebra, admissible sequences, and excess
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Cited to discharge well-definedness by Finite Thom classifying detector map.
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Sources
- Tom Weston, An Introduction to Cobordism Theory (standard reference, not scraped)