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Sullivan's Minimal Models and Higher Order Whitehead Products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Peter Andrews
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Martin Arkowitz
Affiliation:
Williams College, Williams town, Massachusetts
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The theory of minimal models, as developed by Sullivan [6; 8; 16] gives a method of computing the rational homotopy groups of a space X (that is, the homotopy groups of X tensored with the additive group of rationals Q). One associates to X a free, differential, graded-commutative lgebra , over Q, called the minimal model of X, from which one can read off the rational homotopy groups of X.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1978

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