FUNCTORIAL DECOMPOSITIONS OF LOOP SPACES OF SUSPENSIONS , AND THEIR RELATION TO REPRESENTATION THEORY

You might want to give a leisurely exposition of why this is correct as the idea is central to your stuff, and other interesting mathematics. Namely, point out that there is a principal fibration obtained by looping, and there is a section obtained by considering π1. There is a splitting for any principal bundle with section. Thus ΩCP n is homotopy equivalent to the product S × ΩS. This idea is useful in several places. One beautiful application is P. Selick’s product decomposition for the homotopy theoretic fibre of the p-th power map on ΩS. Fred: