On smooth Chas-Sullivan loop product in Quillen's geometric complex cobordism of Hilbert manifolds (Q2498037)

For \(M\) a closed complex manifold let LM denote the space of smooth loops in \(M\). [\textit{M. Chas} and \textit{D. Sullivan}, The legacy of Niels Henrik Abel. Papers from the Abel bicentennial conference, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, June 3--8, 2002. Berlin: Springer. 771--784 (2004; Zbl 1068.55009)] showed that \(H_*(\text{LM})\) has an intersection product of degree \(-d\) and \textit{R. Cohen} and \textit{J. Jones} [Math. Ann. 324, 773--798 (2002; Zbl 1025.55005)] realized this product as a ring spectrum structure on the Thom spectrum of a certain virtual bundle over LM. The paper under review shows that the Cohen-Jones result extends to give a product on the complex bordism of LM. This result has also been established by \textit{D. Chataur} [Int. Math. Res. Not. 46, 2829--2875 (2005; Zbl 1086.55004)] and by \textit{V. Chernov} and \textit{Y. Rudyak} [Algebraic structures on generalized strings, math.GT/0306140]. Readers familiar with the Cohen-Jones paper may be mystified by a reference in the paper under review (on p. 2113) to a mistake in the Cohen-Jones paper. This refers to a (rather minor) gap that occurred in a preliminary version of that paper and which was corrected in the published version cited above.