Cellular properties of nilpotent spaces

We show that cellular approximations of nilpotent Postnikov stages are always nilpotent Postnikov stages, in particular classifying spaces of nilpotent groups are turned into classifying spaces of nilpotent groups. We use a modified Bousfield-Kan homology completion tower zkX whose terms we prove ar...

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Authors: Chachólski, Wojciech, Farjoun, Emmanuel Dror, Flores Díaz, Ramón Jesús, Scherer, Jérôme
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2015
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repository:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/65570
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/65570
https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2015.19.2741
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Nilpotent spaces
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Summary:We show that cellular approximations of nilpotent Postnikov stages are always nilpotent Postnikov stages, in particular classifying spaces of nilpotent groups are turned into classifying spaces of nilpotent groups. We use a modified Bousfield-Kan homology completion tower zkX whose terms we prove are all X–cellular for any X. As straightforward consequences, we show that if X is K–acyclic and nilpotent for a given homology theory K, then so are all its Postnikov sections PnX , and that any nilpotent space for which the space of pointed self-maps map .X; X/ is “canonically” discrete must be aspherical.