Gottlieb Sets and Duality in Homotopy Theory

Abstract

Evaluation subgroups of the homotopy groups have been objects of extensive study recently by Gottlieb, Haslam, Jerrold Siegel, G. E. Lang (Jr), etc. In [8] one of the authors has introduced the notions of ‘cyclic' and ‘cocyclic’ maps and studied generalizations of evaluation subgroups and their duals in the set up of Eckmann-Hilton duality. This paper continues the study of these generalized Gottlieb and dual Gottlieb subsets. All the spaces, except the function spaces, will be arc connected locally compact CW-complexes with base point at a vertex. For any X, Y the set of base point preserving homotopy classes of maps of X to Y is denoted by [X, Y].