Bott ellipticity conjecture for positively curved manifolds

Let MnM^n be a simply connected positively curved manifold, and let ΛM\Lambda M denote its loop space. The Betti numbers of ΛM\Lambda M are the homology ranks with coefficients in any chosen field. Ellipticity conjecture. The Betti numbers of the loop space of any simply connected MnP0M^n \in \mathcal{P}_{0^{-}} grow at most polynomially. This is presented as an extremely strong size and structure restriction, as a proposed extension of a conjecture attributed to Bott. The source does not state a resolution, so the conjecture remains open.

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Karsten Grove, “Developments around positive sectional curvature”, arXiv:0902.4419 (2009).

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