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Homology of spaces of regular loops in the sphere

David Chataur and Jean-François Le Borgne

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 9 (2009) 935–977
Abstract

In this paper we compute the singular homology of the space of immersions of the circle into the n–sphere. Equipped with the Chas–Sullivan loop product these homology groups are graded commutative algebras, which we also compute. We enrich Morse spectral sequences for fibrations of free loop spaces together with loop products. This offers some new computational tools for string topology.

Keywords
free loop space, immersion space, string operation, Morse theory, spectral sequence
Mathematical Subject Classification 2000
Primary: 55N45, 58E05
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Publication
Received: 25 November 2008
Revised: 26 March 2009
Accepted: 30 March 2009
Published: 8 May 2009
Authors
David Chataur
Laboratoire Paul Painlevé
Département de Mathématiques
Université de Lille1
59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq
France
Jean-François Le Borgne
Laboratoire Paul Painlevé
Département de Mathématiques
Université de Lille1
59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq
France