Homotopy groups of certain highly connected manifolds via loop space homology

Article Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Osaka Journal of Mathematics

Abstract

For n ≥ 2 we consider (n − 1)-connected closed manifolds of dimension at most (3n − 2). We prove that away from a finite set of primes, the p-local homotopy groups of M are determined by the dimension of the space of indecomposable elements in the cohomology ring H∗(M;Q). Moreover, we show that these p-local homotopy groups can be expressed as a direct sum of p-local homotopy groups of spheres. This generalizes some of the results of our earlier work [1].

First Page

417

Last Page

430

Publication Date

4-1-2019

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