Comultiplications on a wedge of two spheres

  • Martin Arkowitz
  • , Dae Woong Lee*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

Abstract

In this paper we study the set of comultiplications on a wedge of two spheres. We are primarily interested in the size of this set and properties of the comultiplications such as associativity and commutativity. Our methods involve Whitehead products in wedges of spheres and the Hopf-Hilton invariants. We apply our results to specific examples and determine the number of comultiplications, associative comultiplications and commutative comultiplications in these cases.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9-22
Number of pages14
JournalScience China Mathematics
Volume54
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011.01

Keywords

  • basic White-head products
  • co-H-spaces
  • comultiplications
  • Hilton's formula
  • homotopy associativity
  • homotopy commutativity
  • Hopf-Hilton invariants

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Mathematics

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Comultiplications on a wedge of two spheres'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this