nLab Becker-Gottlieb transfer

Contents

Context

Cohomology

cohomology

Special and general types

Special notions

Variants

Extra structure

Operations

Theorems

Contents

Idea

The Becker-Gottlieb transfer is a variant of push-forward in generalized cohomology of cohomology theories along proper submersions of smooth manifolds.

The Becker-Gottlieb transfer operation has been refined to differential cohomology in (Bunke-Gepner 13).

Its compatibility in differential algebraic K-theory with the differential refinement of the Borel regulator is the content of the transfer index conjecture (Bunke-Tamme 12, conjecture 1.1, Bunke-Gepner 13, conjecture 5.3).

For the moment see at regulator – Becker-Gottlieb transfer for more.

Definition

See e.g. (Haugseng 13, def. 3.9).

References

The original articles

Interpretation in terms of dualizable objects:

Review:

Discussion in the context of differential algebraic K-theory is in

In prop. 4.14 of

Becker-Gottlieb transfer was identified with the Umkehr map induced from a Wirthmüller context in which in addition f *f_\ast satisfies its projection formula (a “transfer context”, def.4.9)

The article

claimed to establish the functoriality of the Becker-Gottlieb transfer for fibrations with finitely dominated fibers on the level of homotopy categories (without higher coherences), but contained an unfixable mistake (cf. Corrigendum to ‘The transfer is functorial’).

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