Homotopy commutativity in Hermitian symmetric spaces

Abstract: Ganea proved that the loop space of

m a t h b b C P^{n}

is homotopy commutative if and only if

n = 3

. We generalize this result to that the loop spaces of all irreducible Hermitian symmetric spaces but

m a t h b b C P^{3}

are not homotopy commutative. The computation also applies to determining the homotopy nilpotency of the loop spaces of flag manifolds.

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