Spin structures on loop spaces that characterize string manifolds

DOI10.2140/AGT.2016.16.675MaRDI QIDQ276567zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Konrad Waldorf

Publication date 4 May 2016

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1731

zbMATH Keywords

fusion productBrylinski-McLaughlin transgressionfree loop spacefusion spin structurelifting bundle gerbesPontryagin classspin structurestring manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Homotopy and topological questions for infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B05)

Abstract: Classically, a spin structure on the loop space of a manifold is a lift of the structure group of the looped frame bundle from the loop group to its universal central extension. Heuristically, the loop space of a manifold is spin if and only if the manifold itself is a string manifold, against which it is well-known that only the if-part is true in general. In this article we develop a new version of spin structures on loop spaces that exists if and only if the manifold is string, as desired. This new version consists of a classical spin structure plus a certain fusion product related to loops of frames in the manifold. We use the lifting gerbe theory of Carey-Murray, recent results of Stolz-Teichner on loop spaces, and some own results about string geometry and Brylinski-McLaughlin transgression.

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