Representing fine shape of local compacta by homotopy classes of ordinary maps

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Main Author: Zemlyanoy, Vladislav
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contents Fine shape, as defined by Melikhov, is an extension of the strong shape category of compacta (compact metrizable topological spaces) to all metrizable spaces, notable for being compatible with both Čech cohomology and Steenrod-Sitnikov homology. In this work we study fine shape of local compacta (locally compact separable metrizable spaces), and construct, for every local compactum $X$, a space $|X|$ unique up to a homotopy equivalence and such that fine shape classes from any locally compact metrizable space $Y$ to $X$ bijectively correspond to homotopy classes of ordinary maps from $Y$ to $|X|$. This correspondence is (contravariatly) functorial in $Y$, thus giving a representation of $Y$-dependent contravariant functor for a fixed $X$; the universal class corresponding to the identity map of $X$ is the homotopy class of a specific embedding of $X$ into $|X|$ that is a fine shape equivalence.
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spellingShingle Representing fine shape of local compacta by homotopy classes of ordinary maps
Zemlyanoy, Vladislav
General Topology
Algebraic Topology
Geometric Topology
Metric Geometry
54C56, 54E45, 55P55
Fine shape, as defined by Melikhov, is an extension of the strong shape category of compacta (compact metrizable topological spaces) to all metrizable spaces, notable for being compatible with both Čech cohomology and Steenrod-Sitnikov homology. In this work we study fine shape of local compacta (locally compact separable metrizable spaces), and construct, for every local compactum $X$, a space $|X|$ unique up to a homotopy equivalence and such that fine shape classes from any locally compact metrizable space $Y$ to $X$ bijectively correspond to homotopy classes of ordinary maps from $Y$ to $|X|$. This correspondence is (contravariatly) functorial in $Y$, thus giving a representation of $Y$-dependent contravariant functor for a fixed $X$; the universal class corresponding to the identity map of $X$ is the homotopy class of a specific embedding of $X$ into $|X|$ that is a fine shape equivalence.
title Representing fine shape of local compacta by homotopy classes of ordinary maps
topic General Topology
Algebraic Topology
Geometric Topology
Metric Geometry
54C56, 54E45, 55P55
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12808