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Extending maps to homotopy colimits

Speaker(s)
Wojciech Lubawski
Affiliation
TCS UJ
Date
Oct. 29, 2013, 12:15 p.m.
Room
room 4070
Seminar
Seminar Algebraic Topology

We develop a cohomological obstruction theory for lifting maps from homotopy colimits over a fibration. We apply it to show existence of several maps BU_n -> BU_m that are not induced by homomorphisms of the underlying unitary groups.