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Cartan-Whitehead decomposition as Adams cocompletion

Part of: General theory of categories and functors Operations and obstructions Homotopy theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

A. Behera  and
S. Nanda
A. Behera
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department University of TorontoToronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada
S. Nanda
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department Regional Engineering College, Rourkela Rourkela, Orissa 769 008, India
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Abstract

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Deleanu, Frei and Hilton have developed the notion of generalized Adams completion in a categorical context; they have also suggested the dual notion, namely, the Adams cocompletion of an object in a category. In this paper the different stages of the Cartan-Whitehead decomposition of a 0-connected space are shown to be the cocompletions of the space with respect to suitable sets of morphisms.

MSC classification

Secondary: 18A40: Adjoint functors (universal constructions, reflective subcategories, Kan extensions, etc.) 55P60: Localization and completion 55S45: Postnikov systems, $k$-invariants
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 223 - 226
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1987

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