We construct products on the homology of quotients by finite group actions of the free loop space ΛM of a compact manifold M. We compute some of the these products in the case M is as sphere. We show that there are nonnilpotent classes with respect to these products for spheres.
The energy functional on ΛM associated to a Riemannian metric on M is invariant under the group actions we consider. We therefore retain information about geometrically distinct closed geodesics.
Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
Loop space homology, closed geodesics
Klassifikation (DDC)
500
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