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The Borel Cohomology of Free Iterated Loop Spaces

Algebraic Topology 2026-01-21 v4

Abstract

We compute the SO(n+1)\rm{SO}(n+1)-equivariant mod 22 Borel cohomology of the free iterated loop space ZSnZ^{S^n} when ZZ is a mod 22 generalized Eilenberg Mac Lane space. When n=1n=1, this recovers B\"okstedt and Ottosen's computation for the free loop space. The highlight of our computation is a construction of cohomology classes using an O(n)\mathrm{O}(n)-equivariant evaluation map and a pushforward map.

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@article{arxiv.2105.13526,
  title  = {The Borel Cohomology of Free Iterated Loop Spaces},
  author = {Ishan Levy and Justin Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.13526},
  year   = {2026}
}

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