Coproducts in brane topology

Abstract

We extend the loop product and the loop coproduct to the mapping space from the $k$-dimensional sphere, or more generally from any $k$-manifold, to a $k$-connected space with finite dimensional rational homotopy group, $k\ge 1$. The key to extending the loop coproduct is the fact that the embedding $M\to M^{S^{k-1}}$ is of "finite codimension" in a sense of Gorenstein spaces. Moreover, we prove the associativity, commutativity, and Frobenius compatibility of them.

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