Of Sullivan models, Massey products, and twisted Pontrjagin products

DOI10.1007/S40062-013-0057-0MaRDI QIDQ2349388zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Somnath Basu

Publication date 22 June 2015

Published in Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3226

zbMATH Keywords

configuration spacesloop spacesPontrjagin ringsstring toplogy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10) Loop spaces (55P35) Rational homotopy theory (55P62)

Abstract: Associated to every connected, topological space $X$ there is a Hopf algebra - the Pontrjagin ring of the based loop space of the configuration space of two points in X. We prove that this Hopf algebra is not a homotopy invariant of the space. We also exhibit interesting examples of H-spaces, which are homotopy equivalent as spaces, which either lead to isomorphic rational Hopf algebras or not, depending crucially on the existence of Whitehead products. Moreover, we investigate a (naturally motivated) twisted version of these Pontrjagin rings in the various aforementioned contexts. In all of these examples, Massey products abound and play a key role.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a 2-connected manifold and denote by \(LM\) the free loop space of \(M\). The evaluation map \(LM\to M\) is a fibration with fibre \(\Omega M\) which admits a natural section. This permits to define a weak homotopy equivalence \(M\times\Omega M\to LM\) and thus a homotopy equivalence \(\phi:\Omega\,(M\times\Omega M)\to\Omega LM\). The author proves that \(\phi\) is not a \(H\)-spaces map when \(M\) is an even-dimensional sphere (for the natural, as well as for some twisted, \(H\)-space structures). However, he also constructs a natural rational homotopy equivalence of \(H\)-spaces \(\Omega\,(\mathbb{C} P^n\times\Omega\mathbb{C} P^n)\to\Omega L\mathbb{C} P^n\), \(n\geq 2\).

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