Poincar\'e duality for loop spaces

arXiv2008.13161MaRDI QIDQ6348019FDOQ6348019

Nancy Hingston, K. Cieliebak, Alexandru Oancea

Publication date: 30 August 2020

Abstract: We show that Rabinowitz Floer homology and cohomology carry the structure of a graded Frobenius algebra for both closed and open strings. We prove a Poincar'e duality theorem between homology and cohomology that preserves this structure. This lifts to a duality theorem between graded open-closed TQFTs. Specializing to the case of cotangent bundles, we define Rabinowitz loop homology and cohomology and explain from a unified perspective pairs of dual results that have been observed over the years in the context of the search for closed geodesics. These concern critical levels, relations to the based loop space, manifolds all of whose geodesics are closed, Bott index iteration, and level-potency. Moreover, the graded Frobenius algebra structure gives meaning and proof to a relation conjectured by Sullivan between the loop product and coproduct.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Duality in algebraic topology (55M05) String topology (55P50)

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