Frobenius rational loop algebra

DOI10.1007/S00229-006-0069-8MaRDI QIDQ946865zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Chataur, Jean-Claude Thomas

Publication date 25 September 2008

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407014

zbMATH Keywords

Frobenius algebra Hodge decomposition loop homology topological quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

Abstract: Recently R. Cohen and V. Godin have proved that the homology of the free loop space of a closed oriented manifold with coefficients in a field has the structure of a Frobenius algebra without counit. In this short note we prove that when the characteristic of the field is zero and when the manifold is 1-connected the algebraic structure depends only on the rational homotopy type of the manifold. We build an algebraic model and use it to do some computations.

Review text

The authors consider the loop homology \(H_{*+m}(LM;k)\) of a closed oriented \(m\)-dimensional manifold \(M\) with coefficients in a field \(k\), which was proved by Cohen and Godin to have the structure of a unital Frobenius algebra without counit. They describe explicitly, for \(k\) having characteristic \(0\), the dual of the coproduct \(H^*(LM;k)^{\otimes^2}\to H^{*+m}(LM,k)\), and prove that it respedt the Hodge decompositin of \(H^*(LM;k)\).

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