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The Viterbo Transfer as a Map of Spectra and Twisted Chas-Sullivan Products

by Thomas Kragh
PhD Dissertations September 2007
Let L and N be two smooth manifolds of the same dimension. Let j:LTN be an exact Lagrange embedding. We denote the free loop space of X by ΛX. Claude Viterbo constructed a transfer map (Λj)!:H(ΛL)H(ΛN). We prove that this transfer map can be realized as a map of Thom spectra (Λj)!:(ΛN)TN(ΛL)TL+η, where η is a virtual bundle defined by the embedding. John D.S. Jones and Ralph L. Cohen proved that the celebrated Chas-Sullivan product for a manifold N can be realized as a product on the Thom spectrum (ΛN)TN, turning it into a ring spectrum. We prove a generalized, "twisted" version of this, proving that the target of (Λj)! is a Chas-Sullivan type ring spectrum. This leads to the natural conjecture that the Viterbo transfer is a ring spectrum homomorphism. We describe partial results on this conjecture.
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Thesis advisor: Marcel Bökstedt