Bott ellipticity conjecture for positively curved manifolds
Bott ellipticity conjecture for positively curved manifolds
Let be a simply connected positively curved manifold, and let denote its loop space. The Betti numbers of are the homology ranks with coefficients in any chosen field. Ellipticity conjecture. The Betti numbers of the loop space of any simply connected 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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Primary source
Karsten Grove, “Developments around positive sectional curvature”, arXiv:0902.4419 (2009).
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