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Homotopy decompositions of the classifying spaces of pointed gauge groups

Homotopy decompositions of the classifying spaces of pointed gauge groups
Homotopy decompositions of the classifying spaces of pointed gauge groups
Let G be a topological group and let G∗(P) be the pointed gauge group of a principal G-bundle P → M. We prove that if G is homotopy commutative then the homotopy type of the classifying space BG∗(P) can be completely determined for certain M. This also works p-locally, and valid choices of M include closed simply-connected four-manifolds when localized at an odd prime p. In this case, an application is to calculate part of the mod-p homology of the classifying space of the full gauge group.
gauge group, mapping space, homotopy type, homology
0030-8730
Theriault, Stephen
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Theriault, Stephen
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Theriault, Stephen (2019) Homotopy decompositions of the classifying spaces of pointed gauge groups. Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 300 (1). (doi:10.2140/pjm.2019.300.215).

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Let G be a topological group and let G∗(P) be the pointed gauge group of a principal G-bundle P → M. We prove that if G is homotopy commutative then the homotopy type of the classifying space BG∗(P) can be completely determined for certain M. This also works p-locally, and valid choices of M include closed simply-connected four-manifolds when localized at an odd prime p. In this case, an application is to calculate part of the mod-p homology of the classifying space of the full gauge group.

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Accepted/In Press date: 10 August 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 20 July 2019
Keywords: gauge group, mapping space, homotopy type, homology

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Local EPrints ID: 424252
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/424252
ISSN: 0030-8730
PURE UUID: 7bb3faef-20b5-4ac9-a9cd-c11929043db7
ORCID for Stephen Theriault: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7729-5527

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Date deposited: 05 Oct 2018 11:35
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 07:03

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