The odd primary homology of \(SU(n), Sp(n)\) and \(Spin(n)\)-gauge groups (Q418925)

Let \(X\) be a path-connected space and \(G\) a topological group. Let \(P\rightarrow X\) be a principal \(G\)-bundle. The gauge group of \(P\) is the group of \(G\)-equivariant automorphisms of \(P\) which fix \(X\). The topology of gauge groups has a big importance in Yang-Mills and Donaldson theories. The rational homotopy of gauge groups was calculated indepently by Félix and Terzić. However little is known about their torsion properties despite considerable interest in geometry about torsion in the homotopy groups or homology groups of gauge groups or their classifying spaces \(BG\). For an odd prime \(p\), the author calculates the mod-\(p\) homology of \(SU(n)\)-gauge groups over a simply-connected, closed 4-manifold for all \(n\geq 2\). Similar calculations are obtained for the structure groups \(Sp(n)\) when \(n\geq 1\) and \(Spin(n)\) for \(n\geq 3\) (except for some cases when \(n\) is even and \(p=3\)).