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Chas and Sullivan proved the existence of a Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra structure in the homology of free loop spaces on closed finite dimensional smooth manifolds using chains and chain homotopies. This algebraic structure involves an…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-06-12 Hirotaka Tamanoi

Chen and Ruan's orbifold cohomology of the symmetric product of a complex manifold is calculated. An isomorphism of rings (up to a change of signs) $H_{orb}^*(X^n/S_n;\complex) \cong H^*(X^{[n]};\complex)$ between the orbifold cohomology of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bernardo Uribe

A chain complex model for the free loop space of a connected, closed and oriented manifold is presented, and on its homology, the Gerstenhaber and Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra structures are defined and identified with the string topology…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-01-06 Xiaojun Chen

In \cite{baker-ozel}, by using Fredholm index we developed a version of Quillen's geometric cobordism theory for infinite dimensional Hilbert manifolds. This cobordism theory has a graded group structure under topological union operation…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 cenap ozel

In this paper we establish a connection between the loop space homology of the generalization of wedge defined by a simplicial complex K (so called polyhedral product) and the homology of certain diagonal arrangements associated with K. We…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-01-20 Natalia Dobrinskaya

We construct a lift of the Goresky-Hingston coproduct on the based loop space. Using this lift, we produce formulas for the interaction of the coproduct with the $\pi_1$-action and with maps of manifolds. These results lets us compute the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Jonathan Clivio

Given an oriented, closed and connected manifold X and a nonzero cohomology u $\in$ H 1 (X, R), we extend the constructions of Morse Homology with differential graded coefficients of [BDHO25] and of the Chas-Sullivan product described on…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Robin Riegel

We give a homotopy equivalence for the loop space of the moment-angle complex associated with a simplicial complex formed by the polyhedral join operation, and give necessary conditions for this loop space to be a finite type product of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Briony Eldridge

The free loop space of a Lie group is homeomorphic to the product of the Lie group itself and its based loop space. We show that the coproduct on the homology of the free loop space that was introduced by Goresky and Hingston splits into…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Maximilian Stegemeyer

In this paper we study the string topology (\'a la Chas-Sullivan) of an orbifold. We define the string homology ring product at the level of the free loop space of the classifying space of an orbifold. We study its properties (introducing…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-07-28 Ernesto Lupercio , Bernardo Uribe , Miguel A. Xicotencatl

We show that Lupercio-Uribe-Xicot\'{e}ncatl's orbifold loop product and coproduct can be described by a group cohomology class in some cases. By computing this cohomology class, we show that in some cases the orbifold loop product is…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Yasuhiko Asao

An almost-direct product of free groups is an iterated semidirect product of finitely generated free groups in which the action of the constituent free groups on the homology of one another is trivial. We determine the structure of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Daniel C. Cohen

Let $M$ be a closed, oriented manifold of dimension $d$. Let $LM$ be the space of smooth loops in $M$. Chas and Sullivan recently defined a product on the homology $H_*(LM)$ of degree $-d$. They then investigated other structure that this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ralph L. Cohen , John D. S. Jones

We calculate the rational equivariant cohomology of the spaces of non-contractible loops in compact space forms and show how to apply these calculations for proving the existence of closed geodesics.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-12-19 I. A. Taimanov

We prove a transformation formula for the Goresky-Hingston loop coproduct in string topology under homotopy equivalences of manifolds. The formula involves the trace of the Whitehead torsion of the homotopy equivalence. In particular, it…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Florian Naef , Pavel Safronov

The aim of this paper is to explain the relationship between the (co)homology of the free loop space and the Hochschild homology of its singular cochain algebra. We introduce all the relevant technical tools, namely simplicial and cyclic…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-10-04 Jean-Louis Loday

In this work, the warped product of Hamilton spaces is introduced and it is shown that these spaces obtain Hamiltonian structure as well. Then, the geometric properties of warped product Hamilton spaces such as their nonlinear connections…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-14 H. Attarchi , M. M. Rezaii

We show that Rabinowitz Floer homology and cohomology carry the structure of a graded Frobenius algebra for both closed and open strings. We prove a Poincar\'e duality theorem between homology and cohomology that preserves this structure.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Kai Cieliebak , Nancy Hingston , Alexandru Oancea

We show that unlike the usual topologies the $g$-topologies are closed with respect to the Cartesian products. Moreover, we bring much detailed explanations some examples of concepts related the statistical metric spaces.

In this paper, we try to generalize to the case of compact Riemannian orbifolds $Q$ some classical results about the existence of closed geodesics of positive length on compact Riemannian manifolds $M$. We shall also consider the problem of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Guruprasad , A. Haefliger