Vector bundles on loop spaces of spheres (Q1183075)

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    Vector bundles on loop spaces of spheres (English)
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    28 June 1992
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    It is shown that for \(m>2\) any vector bundle over \(\Omega S^{m+1}\) is stably trivial. Examples of non-trivial such vector bundles are constructed using certain non-vanishing products in the stable homotopy groups of spheres.
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    \(K\)-theory
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    loop space
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    vector bundle
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