loopspace

English

Noun

loopspace (plural loopspaces)

  1. (mathematics) A function space of continuous functions that map from the unit interval to a space from x0 to x1, all of which map 0 to x0 and 1 to x1.
    • 2016, Jesse C. McKeown, “Complex Cobordism vs. Representing Formal Group Laws”, in arXiv‎:
      Ravenel's: "Infinite loopspace theorists, where are you?", or more prosaically: Can one start from the notion of Ring Spectrum Representing [Formal Group Laws] (the functor) and arrive at Complex Cobordism? Our answer is a tentative "sort-of"..

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