English

A combinatorial model for the free loop fibration

Algebraic Topology 2018-08-20 v2 Category Theory Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We introduce the abstract notion of a closed necklical set in order to describe a functorial combinatorial model of the free loop fibration ΩYΛYY\Omega Y\rightarrow \Lambda Y\rightarrow Y over the geometric realization Y=XY=|X| of a path connected simplicial set X.X. In particular, to any path connected simplicial set XX we associate a closed necklical set Λ^X\widehat{\mathbf{\Lambda}}X such that its geometric realization Λ^X|\widehat{\mathbf{\Lambda}}X|, a space built out of gluing "freehedrical" and "cubical" cells, is homotopy equivalent to the free loop space ΛY\Lambda Y and the differential graded module of chains C(Λ^X)C_*(\widehat{\mathbf{\Lambda}}X) generalizes the coHochschild chain complex of the chain coalgebra C(X).C_\ast(X).

Cite

@article{arxiv.1712.02644,
  title  = {A combinatorial model for the free loop fibration},
  author = {Manuel Rivera and Samson Saneblidze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.02644},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Made minor revisions. To appear in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society

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