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On homotopy Abelian H-spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

James Stasheff
Affiliation:
University of Oxford and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abstract

We consider H-spaces which are Abelian ‘up to homotopy’ (cf. (9)). We analyse this condition in terms of the homotopy of an associated space called ‘the projective plane’. The analysis is applied to show that ΩCP(3) is homotopy Abelian.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1961

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