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What is the formula for the homology class represented by the diagonal?
Let $M$ be a compact oriented manifold and $\{\mu_{i}\}$ a basis
for the homology $H_*(M, \mathbb{Z})$ (we are ignoring any torsion).
Now consider the diagonal $\Delta_{M}$ inside $M\times M$. ...
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