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Frobenius Rational Loop Algebra

Algebraic Topology 2007-05-23 v4 Geometric Topology

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.

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@article{arxiv.math/0407014,
  title  = {Frobenius Rational Loop Algebra},
  author = {David Chataur and Jean-Claude Thomas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0407014},
  year   = {2007}
}

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14 pages