Topology Seminar - Stephen Theriault (Southampton) Seminar
- Time:
- 14:00 - 15:00
- Date:
- 20 February 2017
- Venue:
- Building 16, Room 2025, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this seminar, please telephone Dr Stephen Theriault on 023 8059 2141 or email S.D.Theriault@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
The James Construction Revisted
Abstract: A common assertion is that if f:X--> Y is a map from a path-connected space to a homotopy associative H-space then the James construction implies that f extends to an H-map from the loop suspension of X to Y, and the choice of extension is unique up to homotopy. But no proof of this seems to exist in the literature. We give a proof, whose purpose is more to shed light on some interesting features of the James construction rather than to lay claim to originality.