For spaces homeomorphic to finite simplicial complexes, the assembly functor admits a fully faithful right adjoint, yielding a Whitehead category and torsion cosheaf that recover Whitehead torsion via K-theory.
The derived category of a locally compact space is rarely smooth
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We show that the derived category of a locally compact Hausdorff space $X$ is smooth in the sense of non-commutative geometry if and only if $X$ is discrete and finite.
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Whitehead torsion and the kernel of assembly
For spaces homeomorphic to finite simplicial complexes, the assembly functor admits a fully faithful right adjoint, yielding a Whitehead category and torsion cosheaf that recover Whitehead torsion via K-theory.