String topology for loop stacks

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2006.10.006zbMATH Open1113.14005arXiv0712.3857OpenAlexW1984598473MaRDI QIDQ869719FDOQ869719

Grégory Ginot, Ping Xu, Behrang Noohi, Kai Behrend

Publication date: 8 March 2007

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We establish the general machinery of string topology for differentiable stacks. This machinery allows us to treat on an equal footing free loops in stacks and hidden loops. In particular, we give a good notion of a free loop stack, and of a mapping stack $map(Y,XX)$, where $Y$ is a compact space and $XX$ a topological stack, which is functorial both in $XX$ and $Y$ and behaves well enough with respect to pushouts. We also construct a bivariant (in the sense of Fulton and MacPherson) theory for topological stacks: it gives us a flexible theory of Gysin maps which are automatically compatible with pullback, pushforward and products. Further we prove an excess formula in this context. We introduce oriented stacks, generalizing oriented manifolds, which are stacks on which we can do string topology. We prove that the homology of the free loop stack of an oriented stack and the homology of hidden loops (sometimes called ghost loops) are a Frobenius algebra which are related by a natural morphism of Frobenius algebras. We also prove that the homology of free loop stack has a natural structure of a BV-algebra, which together with the Frobenius structure fits into an homological conformal field theories with closed positive boundaries. Using our general machinery, we construct an intersection pairing for (non necessarily compact) almost complex orbifolds which is in the same relation to the intersection pairing for manifolds as Chen-Ruan orbifold cup-product is to ordinary cup-product of manifolds. We show that the hidden loop product of almost complex is isomorphic to the orbifold intersection pairing twisted by a canonical class. Finally we gave some examples including the case of the classifying stacks $[*/G]$ of a compact Lie group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3857

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zbMATH Keywords

Frobenius algebra\(BV\)-algebraloop product and coproductoriented differential stack

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop spaces (55P35) Generalizations (algebraic spaces, stacks) (14A20)

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• String Topology in Dimensions Two and Three
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• Extension of topological groupoids and Hurewicz morphisms
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• Van Den Bergh isomorphisms in string topology
• Loop groups and string topology

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