On the mod p Betti numbers of loop spaces

DOI10.1007/BF01389246MaRDI QIDQ1087192zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John McCleary

Publication date 1987

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/143439

zbMATH Keywords

Bockstein spectral sequenceclosed geodesicsgrowth of mod p Betti numbershomology of loop spacesrank one symmetric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Spectral sequences in algebraic topology (55T99) Homology and cohomology of (H)-spaces (57T25)

Review text

The author proves the following theorem. Let X be a simply connected, finite CW complex such that, as an algebra, \(H^*(X; {\mathbb{Z}}_ p)\) is generated by at least two generators. Then the mod p Betti numbers of \(_{\Omega}X\) grow unbounded. This extends a theorem of \textit{D. Sullivan} which is proved only for rational coefficients [Manifolds, Proc. int. Conf. Manifolds relat. Top. Topol., Tokyo 1973, 37-49 (1975; Zbl 0319.58005)]. The proof uses the Bockstein spectral sequence and the infinite implications of \textit{W. Browder} [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 74, 24-51 (1961; Zbl 0112.145)]. Several corollaries are drawn. The first that the Betti numbers of the loop space of a simply connected closed manifold are bounded for all dimensions and any field of coefficients if and only if the manifold has the integral homology of a rank one symmetric space. Another corollary states that if the manifold is simply connected and Riemannian and does not have the integral homology of a simply connected rank one symmetric space, then the number of distinct geodesics between two nonconjugate points of length less than \(\lambda\) grows quadratically in \(\lambda\).

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