Questions tagged [whitehead-product]
A product on the homotopy groups of a space: $\pi_k(X)\times\pi_l(X) \to \pi_{k+l-1}(X)$.
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Reference request: Whitehead product and the Borel construction
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a based space $(X,x_0)$,
a topological group $G$
acting on $X$ from the left, so that the basepoint $x_0$ is fixed,
a based map $\alpha\colon S^p\to G$ ($p\geq1$)...
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"Relative Whitehead products"
The notion of a relative Whitehead product exists in the literature and has been asked about before (e.g. here). I am trying to find out about a different product on relative homotopy classes which ...
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Sum of higher Whitehead products
For a CW-complex $X$ and homotopy classes $[f_i] \in \pi_{l_i}(X)$ for $1 \leq i \leq s$, where $s \geq 2$, the higher Whitehead product is defined to be the set
$$[f_1,...,f_s] := \{[\rho \circ \phi] ...