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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 23rd 2014
    • (edited Oct 23rd 2014)

    Given an nn-dimensional manifold Σ\Sigma, with BDiff(Σ)B \mathrm{Diff}(\Sigma) the classifying space of its diffemorphism group.

    How different is that from the following classifying space:

    Write τ Σ:ΣBGL(n)\tau_\Sigma \colon \Sigma \to \mathbf{B} GL(n) for the morphism of smooth stacks that modulates the tangent bundle of Σ\Sigma.

    Notice that an endomorphism of Σ\Sigma regarded in the slice over BGL(n)\mathbf{B}\mathrm{GL}(n) this way is equivalently a local diffeomorphism:

    LocalDiffeos(Σ,Σ)SmoothGrpd /BGL(n)(τ Σ,τ Σ). LocalDiffeos(\Sigma, \Sigma) \simeq Smooth \infty Grpd_{/\mathbf{B}GL(n)}(\tau_\Sigma, \tau_\Sigma) \,.

    Under geometric realization Π\Pi the morphism τ Σ\tau_\Sigma becomes, equivalently

    Π(τ Σ):Π(Σ)BO(n). \Pi(\tau_\Sigma) \colon \Pi(\Sigma) \longrightarrow B O(n) \,.

    There is then the automorphism \infty-group

    Aut /BO(n)(Π(Σ))=Grpd /BO(n)(τ Σ,τ Σ) equiv Aut_{/B O(n)}(\Pi(\Sigma)) = \infty Grpd_{/B O(n)}(\tau_\Sigma, \tau_\Sigma)_{equiv}

    of Π(Σ)\Pi(\Sigma) regarded in the slice of Grpd\infty Grpd over BO(n)B O(n).

    How does BAut BO(n)(Π(Σ)) B \mathrm{Aut}_{B O(n)}(\Pi(\Sigma)) relate to BDiff(Σ)B \mathrm{Diff}(\Sigma) ?

    Or in other words: to which extent may we “take Π\Pi inside” to pass from

    Π(Aut /BGL(n)(Σ)) \Pi( \mathrm{Aut}_{/\mathbf{B}GL(n)}(\Sigma) )

    to

    Aut /Π(BGL(n))(Π(Σ)) \mathrm{Aut}_{/\Pi(\mathbf{B}GL(n))}(\Pi(\Sigma))

    ?

    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 23rd 2014

    have made that an MO question