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On the cohomology of the free loop space of a complex projective space

Algebraic Topology 2011-11-01 v1

Abstract

Let Λ(CPn)\Lambda (\mathbb{C}P^n) denote the free loop space of the complex projective space CPn\mathbb{C}P^n, i. e. CPn\mathbb{C}P^n is the projective space of the vector space Cn+1\mathbb{C}^{n+1} of dimension n+1n+1 over the complex numbers C\mathbb{C} and Λ(CPn)\Lambda(\mathbb{C}P^n) is the function space map(S1,CPn)\mathrm{map}(S^1,\mathbb{C}P^n) of unbased maps from a circle S1S^1 into CPn\mathbb{C}P^n topologized with the compact open topology. In this note we show that despite the fact that the natural fibration Ω(CPn)Λ(CPn)evalCPn\Omega(\mathbb{C}P^n)\hookrightarrow \Lambda(\mathbb{C}P^n)\stackrel{eval}{\longrightarrow}\mathbb{C}P^n has a cross section its Serre spectral sequence does not collapse: Here evaleval is the evaluation map at a base point * CPn\in \mathbb{C}P^n.

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@article{arxiv.1110.6608,
  title  = {On the cohomology of the free loop space of a complex projective space},
  author = {Nora Seeliger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.6608},
  year   = {2011}
}

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