Phantom maps vanish on represented homology

ID: phantom-maps-vanish-on-represented-homology

For a phantom map of spectra and a finite CW complex , Spanier-Whitehead duality identifies with maps from the finite spectrum . Hence there. An arbitrary CW complex is the filtered union of its finite subcomplexes, and represented homology theory commutes with that filtered union because spheres are compact. Thus induces zero on the entire represented homology theory.

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