Orientation and string structures on loop space

DOI10.2140/PJM.1992.155.143zbMath0739.57012OpenAlexW2019047263MaRDI QIDQ811622

Dennis A. McLaughlin

Publication date: 1992

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1992.155.143

zbMATH Keywords

equivariant string structuresorienting loop spacetopological obstruction to existence of string structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop spaces (55P35) Topology of infinite-dimensional manifolds (57N20) Manifolds of mappings (58D15)

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