Free loop spaces and cyclohedra
It is well-known that a based space is of the weak homotopy type of a loop space iff it is a grouplike algebra over an -operad. The classical model for such an operad consists of Stasheff’s associahedra. The present paper describes a similar recognition principle for free loop spaces. Let be an operad, a -module and a -algebra. An -trace over consists of a space and a module homomorphism over the operad homomorphism given by the algebra structure on . Let be the little 1-cubes...