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Properties of comultiplications on a wedge of spheres

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

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Abstract

In this paper we study the set of comultiplications on a wedge of a finite number of spheres. We are interested in group theoretic properties of these comultiplications such as associativity and commutativity and loop theoretic properties such as inversivity, power-associativity and the Moufang property. Our methods involve Whitehead products in wedges of spheres and the Hopf-Hilton invariants. We obtain extensive results for a restricted class of comultiplications, namely, the one-stage quadratic or cubic comultiplications.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1607-1621
Number of pages15
JournalTopology and its Applications
Volume157
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010.06

Keywords

  • Algebraic loops
  • Co-H-spaces
  • Comultiplications
  • Homotopy associativity
  • Homotopy commutativity
  • Hopf-Hilton invariants
  • Inversivity
  • Power-associativity
  • Secondary
  • The Moufang property
  • Wedges of spheres
  • Whitehead products

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Mathematics

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