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Self-homotopy equivalences of product spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Petar Pavešić
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, Ljubljana, Slovenia (petar.pavesic@uni-lj.si)

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The group of self-homotopy equivalences Aut(X ć Y) is represented as a product of two subgroups under the assumption that the self-equivalences of X ć Y can be diagonalized. Moreover, an analogous result holds for the subgroup Aut#(X ć Y) of self-equivalences, which induce identity automorphisms on homotopy groups. Other methods for the computation of Aut(X ć Y) are studied, especially when the spaces involved have an H- or coH-structure, and several examples are considered, among others, some non-simply connected H-spaces of rank 2.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1999

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