nLab homology of loop spaces

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Idea

The homology of (iterated) based loop spaces (ordinary homology or generalized homology) carries special structure, reflecting the ∞-group-structure of based loop spaces.

In particular, under mild technical conditions (see Milnor-Moore 65, p. 262, Halperin 92) the Pontrjagin ring-structure induced by concatenation of loops enhances the homology coalgebra induced by the diagonal maps to that of a Hopf algebra.

Examples

References

The “Pontryagin-multiplication” on loop/path spaces is due to

named in honor of the analogous construction over compact Lie groups in:

  • Lev Pontrjagin, Homologies in compact Lie groups, Rec. Math. [Mat. Sbornik] N.S., 1939 Volume 6(48), Number 3, Pages 389–422 (mathnet:5835)

Further discussion of homology of (iterated) loop spaces:

See also:

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