The suspended free loop space of a symmetric space

Publication date 3 November 2005

Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Loop spaces (55P35) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Stable homotopy theory, spectra (55P42)

Abstract: Let M be one of the projective spaces CP^n, HP^n for n>1 or the Cayley projective plane OP^2, and let LM denote the free loop space on M. Using Morse theory methods, we prove that the suspension spectrum of (LM)_+ is homotopy equivalent to the suspension spectrum of M_+ wedge a family of Thom spaces of explicit vector bundles over the tangent sphere bundle of M.

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