The Borel Cohomology of Free Iterated Loop Spaces

Abstract

We compute the $\rm{SO}(n+1)$-equivariant mod $2$ Borel cohomology of the free iterated loop space $Z^{S^n}$ when $Z$ is a mod $2$ generalized Eilenberg Mac Lane space. When $n=1$, this recovers B\"okstedt and Ottosen's computation for the free loop space. The highlight of our computation is a construction of cohomology classes using an $\mathrm{O}(n)$-equivariant evaluation map and a pushforward map.