Loop-fusion cohomology and transgression

DOI10.4310/MRL.2015.V22.N4.A11MaRDI QIDQ499869zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chris Kottke, Richard Melrose

Publication date 6 October 2015

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.7674

zbMATH Keywords

fusion productloop spaceČech cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

?ech types (55N05)

Abstract: `Loop-fusion cohomology' is defined on the continuous loop space of a manifold in terms of vCech cochains satisfying two multiplicative conditions with respect to the fusion and figure-of-eight products on loops. The main result is that these cohomology groups, with coefficients in an abelian group, are isomorphic to those of the manifold and the transgression homomorphism factors through the isomorphism.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a compact smooth manifold equipped with a fixed Riemannian metric and denote by \(LM\) the free loop space of \(M\). The authors present a refined Čech cohomology, \(\vec H_{lf}(LM;A)\) with coefficients in any Abelian group \(A\), called the fusion cohomology. The fusion cohomology is the homology of a subcomplex of a Čech cochain complex associated to a good cover of \(LM\) by tubes of fixed radius. The main result of this paper is that fusion cohomology is isomorphic to the ordinary cohomology of \(M\) with coefficients in \(A\). This isomorphism is given by an enhanced transgression map of the loop fibration, defined at the cochain level.

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