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Commutative products on spheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

I. M. James
Affiliation:
The Institute for Advanced StudyPrinceton, New Jersey

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Consider a topological n–sphere Sn, where n ≥ 1. By a commutative product I mean a continuous function f: Sn × SnSn such that

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1957

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