Cohen, Ralph L.; Lupercio, Ernesto; Segal, Graeme B. Holomorphic spheres in loop groups and Bott periodicity. (English) Zbl 1064.58010 Yau, S.T. (ed.), Surveys in differential geometry. Papers dedicated to Atiyah, Bott, Hirzebruch and Singer . Somerville, MA: International Press (ISBN 1-57146-069-1/hbk). Surv. Differ. Geom., Suppl. J. Differ. Geom. 7, 83-106 (2000). Summary: We study the topology of spaces of holomorphic maps from the Riemann sphere \(\mathbb{P}^1\) to infinite-dimensional Grassmann manifolds and to loop groups. Included in this study is a complete identification of the homotopy types of \(\text{Hol}_k(\mathbb{P}^1,BU(n))\) and of \(\text{Hol}_k(\mathbb{P}^1,\Omega U)\), where the subscript \(k\) denotes the degree of the map. These spaces are shown to be homotopy equivalent to the \(k\)th Mitchell-Segal algebraic filtration of the loop group \(\Omega U(n) \), and to \(BU(k)\), respectively.For the entire collection see [Zbl 1044.53002]. Cited in 3 Documents MSC: 58D15 Manifolds of mappings Keywords:spaces of holomorphic maps; Riemann sphere; infinite-dimensional Grassmann manifolds PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{R. L. Cohen} et al., Surv. Differ. Geom., Suppl. J. Differ. Geom. 7, 83--106 (2000; Zbl 1064.58010)