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| Mar 12, 2018 at 20:29 | comment | added | PrimeRibeyeDeal | @QiaochuYuan regarding covering spaces, don't you mean $G$ is any transitive subgroup of $S_n$? | |
| Oct 21, 2017 at 23:45 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Oct 21, 2017 at 18:56 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | And note that in the special case $Y = BG$ we are classifying principal $G$-bundles on $X$, which is a very large and important generalization of classifying covering spaces (which correspond to $G = S_n$ for $n$-sheeted covers). | |
| Oct 21, 2017 at 17:59 | history | answered | Tyler Lawson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |