McLaughlin, Dennis A. Orientation and string structures on loop space. (English) Zbl 0739.57012 Pac. J. Math. 155, No. 1, 143-156 (1992). This paper deals rigorously with the notion of a string structure and the topological obstruction to its existence. The question of orienting loop space is discussed, and shown to be directly analogous to orientation of finite-dimensional manifolds. Finally, equivariant string structures are considered. Reviewer: D.A.McLaughlin Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 33 Documents MSC: 57N20 Topology of infinite-dimensional manifolds 55P35 Loop spaces 58D15 Manifolds of mappings Keywords:topological obstruction to existence of string structures; orienting loop space; equivariant string structures PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{D. A. McLaughlin}, Pac. J. Math. 155, No. 1, 143--156 (1992; Zbl 0739.57012) Full Text: DOI