Loop Space Decompositions of Connected Sums and Applications to the Vigué-Poirrier Conjecture
Abstract
Recent work of Beben and Theriault on decomposing based loop spaces of highly connected Poincaré Duality complexes has yielded new methods for analysing the homotopy theory of manifolds. In this paper we will expand upon these methods, which we will then apply to give new examples supporting a long standing question of rational homotopy theory: the Vigué-Poirrier Conjecture.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 2023
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2304.12726
- Bibcode:
- 2023arXiv230412726C
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Algebraic Topology;
- Primary 55P35;
- Secondary 55P62
- E-Print:
- Minor changes from previous version. 16 pages, comments welcome. Sections 2 and 3 subsume parts of arXiv:2210.04548 [math.AT]