Combinatorial Invariants of Stratifiable Spaces II

Abstract

In this follow-up to [16], we continue developing the notion of a lego category and its many applications to stratifiable spaces and the computation of their Grothendieck classes. We illustrate the effectiveness of this construction by giving very short derivations of the class of a quotient by the "stratified action" of a discrete group [1], the class of a crystallographic quotient, the class of both a polyhedral product and a polyhedral (or simplicial) configuration space [8], the class of a permutation product [19] and, foremost, the class of spaces of $0$-cycles [11].