On the string topology coproduct for Lie groups

DOI10.4310/HHA.2022.V24.N2.A17MaRDI QIDQ2107554zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Maximilian Stegemeyer

Publication date 1 December 2022

Published in Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10190

zbMATH Keywords

Lie groupstring topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String topology (55P50) Homology and cohomology of Lie groups (57T10)

Abstract: The free loop space of a Lie group is homeomorphic to the product of the Lie group itself and its based loop space. We show that the coproduct on the homology of the free loop space that was introduced by Goresky and Hingston splits into the diagonal map on the group and a based coproduct on the homology of the based loop space. This result implies that the coproduct is trivial for even-dimensional Lie groups. Using results by Bott and Samelson, we show that the coproduct is trivial as well for a large family of simply connected Lie groups.

Review text

In [Duke Math. J. 150, No. 1, 117--209 (2009; Zbl 1181.53036)], \textit{M. Goresky} and \textit{N. Hingston} have defined a coproduct on the homology of the free loop space \(\Lambda M\) of a connected oriented closed \(n\)-dimensional smooth Riemannian manifold \(M\) relative to the constant loops. In this paper, the author studies the particular case when \(M\) is a compact Lie group \(G\). In this case \(\Lambda G\cong G\times\Omega G\) and the main result of this article shows that the homology coproduct behaves well under the isomorphism \(H_*(\Lambda G)\cong H_*(G)\otimes H_*(\Omega G)\). A consequence of this first result is: If \(G\) is even-dimensional or if \(G\) is simply connected and of rank \(r\geq 2\), then the homology coproduct is trivial.

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