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Poincar\'e duality for loop spaces

Kai Cieliebak , Nancy Hingston , Alexandru Oancea This is my paper

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keywords Rabinowitz Floer homologyPoincaré dualitygraded Frobenius algebraopen-closed TQFTcotangent bundlesclosed geodesicsloop productTate vector spaces
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Rabinowitz Floer homology and cohomology satisfy Poincaré duality that preserves their graded Frobenius algebra structure.

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The paper establishes a Poincaré duality between Rabinowitz Floer homology and cohomology for both closed and open strings that preserves the graded Frobenius algebra structure on each side. This duality lifts to an equivalence between graded open-closed TQFTs. The constructions rely on Tate vector spaces to control the infinite-dimensional features of the underlying loop spaces and Floer complexes. Specializing to cotangent bundles unifies several previously observed dual statements about closed geodesics and supplies a proof of a relation between the loop product and coproduct that Sullivan had conjectured.

Core claim

We show that Rabinowitz Floer homology and cohomology carry the structure of a graded Frobenius algebra for both closed and open strings. We prove a Poincaré duality theorem between homology and cohomology that preserves this structure. This lifts to a duality theorem between graded open-closed TQFTs. We use in a systematic way the formalism of Tate vector spaces.

What carries the argument

Rabinowitz Floer homology and cohomology equipped with graded Frobenius algebra structure, with duality realized through Tate vector spaces.

If this is right

  • Specialization to cotangent bundles produces well-defined Rabinowitz loop homology and cohomology.
  • The duality unifies observed pairs of dual statements on critical levels, relations to the based loop space, manifolds with all geodesics closed, Bott index iteration, and level-potency.
  • The graded Frobenius algebra structure supplies both meaning and a proof for the conjectured relation between the loop product and coproduct.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same Tate-vector-space technique may produce analogous dualities in other Floer theories whose complexes are infinite-dimensional.
  • The resulting TQFT duality could be used to relate string topology operations on different manifolds in a systematic way.
  • Computations of Rabinowitz loop homology on specific manifolds might now be transferred to the cohomology side via the duality map.

Load-bearing premise

Tate vector spaces correctly organize the infinite-dimensional data of the loop spaces and Floer complexes so that the duality maps are well-defined and structure-preserving.

What would settle it

An explicit computation on a specific cotangent bundle where the induced map between homology and cohomology fails to intertwine the product and coproduct operations.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2008.13161 by Alexandru Oancea, Kai Cieliebak, Nancy Hingston.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Sullivan’s relation. Puzzle (d) is resolved by Theorem 1.9 restricted to the first summand of the splitting Hq ˚Λ “ H ˚ Λ‘H1´˚Λ: the cohomology product on H ˚ Λ is the secondary product derived from a closed noncompact TQFT with vanishing primary product. Puzzle (e) is resolved in a somewhat unexpected way: The loop product ‚ on H˚Λ and the cohomology product ⊛ on H ˚ Λ extend to products m on Hq˚Λ and c ˚… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Morphism of 2 ´ Cob` with 1 outgoing and 2 incoming boundary components. At the level of objects, an open-closed TQFT is determined by the module C associated to the oriented circle, and by the module O asso￾ciated to the oriented interval. We refer in this case to the pair pO, Cq as defining an open-closed noncompact TQFT. Our next theorem addresses open-closed TQFT structures from the perspective of Poin… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: The zipper and the cozipper. Theorem 2.6. (1) For all A, B P Hˇ ˚Λ and C P Hˇ ˚Ω we have p1.iq i!pA ‚ Bq “ i!A ‚Ω i!B, p1.iiq pi˚Cq ‚ A “ i˚pC ‚Ω i!Aq. (2) For all a, b P Hˇ ˚Λ and c P Hˇ ˚Ω we have p2.iq i ˚ pa ⊛ bq “ i ˚ a ⊛Ω i ˚ b, p2.iiq pi ! cq ⊛ a “ i ! pc ⊛Ω i ˚ aq. Proof. Part (1) is a consequence of the open-closed noncompact TQFT structure on pHˇ ˚Ω, Hˇ ˚Λq, see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: TQFT proof of the Hopf-Freudenthal-Gysin formulas. 2.3. Loop product with the point class. In the following discussion we assume that M is oriented and we use Z-coefficients. The long exact sequence (2) and the fact that ι is a ring map imply that im ε “ kerι is an ideal. By the description (3) of the map ε we have im ε “ ZχpMqrqs, where rqs P H0Λ is the class of the constant loop at the basepoint q P M. S… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: I II III 1 4 1 ´ ǫ 1 ´ ǫ 1 ´τ τ 1 r 3τ {4 ´τ 1 ´τ ´ǫ 1 τ ǫτ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p047_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Morse cochain complex for S ˚M. Proof. We work in the Morse-Bott limit using the Morse-Bott complex with cascades [31, Appendix A], see also [13]. In view of the Morse￾Bott Correspondence Theorem [9, Theorem 1.1], see also [14], this is equivalent to working with a perturbation φ ´ π ˚f that is very small. We choose on S a horizontal distribution and a metric such that the horizontal distribution is orthog… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Proof of Lemma 4.13(c). with Dx, and, with respect to this identification, we have ev|BDx ” p ´ max. Denoting κx “ deg pev : Dx{BDx Ñ Spmax q and taking into account that p ` max P Spmax is a regular value, we obtain κ “ ÿ xPZ κx. Similarly, we can express the Euler characteristic as a sum over zeroes of s, i.e. χ “ ÿ xPZ εx, where εx “ ˘1 is a sign which records whether the vertical differential dsvertpxq… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: The function h and the perturbation ∇˜ φ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p058_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Hamiltonian profile for the canonical splitting. The free R-module underlying the Floer chain complex of H splits as C :“ F C˚pHq “ CF ‘ CI , where CF is generated by the 1-periodic orbits near Vδ, and CI by the orbits near r1´ε, 1`εsˆBV . The action of orbits in CF is ď ´p1´ε´δqµ and the action of orbits in CI is ě ´p1 ´ εqpµ ´ ηµq, where ηµ ą 0 is the distance from µ to the action spectrum of BV . Thus a… view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Profile with small slope µ. Their indices are indpp `q “ indppq, indpp ´q “ indppq ` n ´ 1, indpp F q “ indppq ` n, and the Morse coboundary operator B M satisfies B Mp ´ min “ p F min ` “ B M f ppminq ‰´ ` χ ¨ p ` max , B Mp ´ “ p F ` “ B M f ppq ‰´ for all p ‰ pmin, B Mp ` “ “ B M f ppq ‰` , B Mp F “ “ B M f ppq ‰F . Here “ B M f ppq ‰‹ is a notation for ř nqq ‹ , where B M f ppq “ ř nqq and ‹ “ ´, `, F… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Morse cochain complex for a profile with small slope µ. We claim that A “ HpCF ‘ C ´ I q “ pR{χR, 0q [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p063_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: The 1-dimensional moduli space of discs with 1 interior puncture and 2 boundary punctures. 6. BV structures and Poincar´e duality For dim M “ n we denote Hq ˚Λ “ Hq˚`nΛ, H˚Λ “ H˚`nΛ, H˚M “ H˚`nM. We discuss in this section the BV algebra structure6 on these three R-modules and the extension of Poincar´e duality in this setting. This structure plays a crucial role in [22], where we give applications to the… view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: For simplicity, we focus on the restriction of c ˚ to SH˚ ą0 pBV q. For an easier connection to Lemma 4.8, we shall describe the equivalent degree ´n ` 1 product on SHă0 ˚ pV, BV q » SH´˚ ą0 pBV q, denoted (37) σP D : SHă0 ˚ pV, BV q b SHă0 ˚ pV, BV q Ñ SHă0 ˚´n`1 pV, BV q. In Lemma 4.8 and the surrounding sections 4.3 and 4.4 we used two Hamiltonian profiles as in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p078_… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: The cut-off function χR. Define the deformation H Ñ L Ñ H by the s-dependent Hamiltonian HRpsq :“ H ` χRpsqpL ´ Hq, s P R, and consider the 1-parameter family H λ :“ p1 ´ λqHR ` λH “ H ` p1 ´ λqχRpsqpL ´ Hq, λ P r0, 1s. The map K is determined by the count of elements of 0-dimensional moduli spaces of solutions to the 1-parametric Floer problem M1 px; yq :“ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p079_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: As before, we pick a 1-form β on Σ satisfying dβ “ 0 with positive weights 1 and negative weight 2, and we fix a generic 2- parameter family of almost complex structures J “ J λ0,λ1 compatible with the cylindrical ends on Σ and on Vp. Given x 0 , x1 P PIII` pHq and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p080_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: The secondary product σP D is read on the top and right sides of the parametrizing square. Appendix B. Grading conventions Our standing convention is to grade Hamiltonian Floer homology by the Conley-Zehnder index of orbits, and Lagrangian Floer homology by the Conley-Zehnder index of chords. Given a preferred trivialization, the Conley-Zehnder index CZpγq of a Hamiltonian orbit γ is such that the Fredhol… view at source ↗
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We show that Rabinowitz Floer homology and cohomology carry the structure of a graded Frobenius algebra for both closed and open strings. We prove a Poincar\'e duality theorem between homology and cohomology that preserves this structure. This lifts to a duality theorem between graded open-closed TQFTs. We use in a systematic way the formalism of Tate vector spaces. Specializing to the case of cotangent bundles, we define Rabinowitz loop homology and cohomology and explain from a unified perspective pairs of dual results that have been observed over the years in the context of the search for closed geodesics. These concern critical levels, relations to the based loop space, manifolds all of whose geodesics are closed, Bott index iteration, and level-potency. Moreover, the graded Frobenius algebra structure gives meaning and proof to a relation conjectured by Sullivan between the loop product and coproduct.

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Summary. The manuscript proves that Rabinowitz Floer homology and cohomology carry graded Frobenius algebra structures for closed and open strings. It establishes a Poincaré duality between homology and cohomology preserving this structure, which lifts to a duality between graded open-closed TQFTs, using the formalism of Tate vector spaces to handle infinite-dimensional loop spaces and Floer complexes. Specializing to cotangent bundles, it defines Rabinowitz loop homology/cohomology and unifies dual results on critical levels, based loop spaces, manifolds with all geodesics closed, Bott iteration, and level-potency; it also proves the relation between loop product and coproduct conjectured by Sullivan.

Significance. If the results hold, the work supplies a unified algebraic framework for duality phenomena in string topology and symplectic geometry, explaining multiple observed dualities for closed geodesics from a single perspective and giving rigorous meaning to Sullivan's conjectured relation. The systematic application of Tate vector spaces to produce well-defined duals and pairings compatible with the TQFT operations is a technical contribution that addresses a recurring obstacle in infinite-dimensional settings.

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  1. The abstract and introduction refer to 'graded open-closed TQFTs' without an explicit definition or reference to the precise axioms used; a short subsection recalling the relevant TQFT operations and grading conventions would improve readability.
  2. Notation for the Rabinowitz action functional and its critical levels is introduced in §2 but reused with minor variants in the cotangent-bundle specialization (§6); a consolidated table of symbols would reduce ambiguity.
  3. The proof that the duality preserves the Frobenius algebra structure (Theorem 4.3) relies on compatibility of the Tate pairing with the product and coproduct; while the argument is sketched, an expanded diagram chase or explicit sign computation in an appendix would strengthen the presentation.

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We thank the referee for the positive assessment of our work on Poincaré duality for Rabinowitz Floer homology and its applications to loop spaces and string topology. The recommendation for minor revision is noted. As the report lists no major comments, we have no specific points requiring rebuttal or clarification at this stage.

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The paper establishes a Poincaré duality for Rabinowitz Floer homology and cohomology (preserving graded Frobenius algebra structure and lifting to open-closed TQFTs) by systematically applying the Tate vector spaces formalism to handle infinite-dimensional aspects of loop spaces and Floer complexes. No self-definitional reductions, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text. The central claims are presented as building on prior Floer homology literature and the Tate formalism as an independent tool, without equations or definitions that reduce the output to the inputs by construction. This is self-contained against external benchmarks, consistent with the most common honest finding of no circularity.

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The work rests on prior definitions and properties of Rabinowitz Floer homology, cohomology, and Tate vector spaces; no new free parameters or invented entities are introduced in the abstract.

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  • domain assumption Standard properties and definitions of Rabinowitz Floer homology and cohomology
    The paper builds directly on existing constructions in the field as stated in the abstract.
  • standard math Properties of Tate vector spaces
    Used systematically to handle infinite-dimensional aspects.

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