{ "id": "1603.08100", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-03-26T11:08:23.000Z", "updated": "2016-03-26T11:08:23.000Z", "title": "The rational homology ring of the based loop space of the gauge groups and the spaces of connections on a four-manifold", "authors": [ "Svjetlana Terzic" ], "comment": "10 pages", "categories": [ "math.AT" ], "abstract": "We provide the rational-homotopic proof that the ranks of the homotopy groups of a simply connected four-manifold depend only on its second Betti number. We also consider the based loop spaces of the gauge groups and the spaces of connections of a simply connected four-manifold and, appealing to~\\cite{TI} and using the models from the rational homotopy theory, we obtain the explicit formulas for their rational Pontrjagin homology rings.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-03-26T11:08:23.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "55P62", "55P35", "57R19", "81T13" ], "keywords": [ "loop space", "rational homology ring", "gauge groups", "connections", "rational pontrjagin homology rings" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }