Homotopy of gauge groups over non-simply-connected five dimensional manifolds

2018/05/13 by Ruizhi Huang, Huang, Ruizhi
Mathematics · #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Advanced Topics in Algebra #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1805.04878

Abstract

Both the gauge groups and 5-manifolds are important in physics and mathematics. In this paper, we combine them together to study the homotopy aspects of gauge groups over 5-manifolds. For principal bundles over non-simply connected oriented closed 5-manifolds of certain type, we prove various homotopy decompositions of their gauge groups according to different geometric structures on the manifolds, and give partial solution to the classification of the gauge groups. As applications, we estimate the homotopy exponents of their gauge groups, and show periodicity results of the homotopy groups of gauge groups analogous to Bott periodicity. Our treatments here are also very effective for rational gauge groups in general context, and applicable for higher dimensional manifolds.

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