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Pontryagin product

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In mathematics, the Pontryagin product, introduced by Lev Pontryagin, is a product on the homology of a topological space induced by a product on the topological space. Special cases include the Pontryagin product on the homology of an abelian group, and the Pontryagin product on a loop space.

References

  • Brown, Kenneth S. (1982), Cohomology of groups, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 87, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-90688-1, MR672956