Equivariant loops on classifying spaces

Abstract

We compute the homology of the space of equivariant loops on the classifying space of a simplicial monoid $M$ with anti-involution, provided $\pi_0 (M)$ is central in the homology ring of $M$. The proof is similar to McDuff and Segal's proof of the group completion theorem. Then we compute the homology of the $C_2$-fixed points of a Segal-type model of the algebraic $K$-theory of an additive category with duality. As an application we show that this fixed point space is sometimes group complete, but not in general.