On H-spaces and exceptional Lie groups

DOI10.1215/KJM/1250518445MaRDI QIDQ1367051zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Akihiro Ohsita

Publication date 11 February 1999

Published in Journal of Mathematics of Kyoto University (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1215/kjm/1250518445

zbMATH Keywords

exceptional Lie groupfundamental grouphomotopy associative \(H\)-spacemod-2 cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(H)-spaces and duals (55P45) Steenrod algebra (55S10) Serre spectral sequences (55T10) Hopf algebras (aspects of homology and homotopy of topological groups) (57T05) Homology and cohomology of (H)-spaces (57T25)

Review text

This paper sharpens results of \textit{F. Borel} [Comment. Math. Helv. 53, 73-91 (1978; Zbl 0372.55010)] and \textit{J. P. Lin} [Topology Appl. 25, 137-142 (1987; Zbl 0617.57024)], concerning the fundamental group and mod-2 cohomology of a homotopy-associative \(H\)-space that has the rational cohomology algebra of an exceptional Lie group. Part of the main result reads as follows: Suppose \(X\) is a connected, homotopy-associative \(H\)-space such that \(H_*(X;{\mathbb F}_2)\) is finite, and \(H^*(X;{\mathbb Q})\) is isomorphic as an algebra to \(H^*(G_2;{\mathbb Q})\), for the exceptional Lie group \(G_2\). Then \(\pi_1(X)=0\) and \(H^*(X;{\mathbb F}_2) \cong H^*(G_2;{\mathbb F}_2)\) as Hopf algebras over the Steenrod algebra. For this case, in which the exceptional Lie group is \(G_2\), the earlier result of Borel obtains that \(\pi_1(X)\) is either \(0\) or \({\mathbb Z}_2\), and the earlier result of Lin obtains \(H^*(X;{\mathbb F}_2) \cong H^*(G_2;{\mathbb F}_2)\) as algebras over the Steenrod algebra. Similar improvements of the two earlier results are obtained with the other exceptional Lie groups replacing \(G_2\). The main result is obtained by a careful analysis that combines the two earlier results with some mod-2 Serre spectral sequence calculations.

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