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Refined Euler characteristic

Look up the Poincare polynomial $p_X(t)$. It is still multiplicative, by the Kunneth formula. The Euler characteristic is $\chi_X=p_X(-1)$. We have $p_{S^1\times S^1}(t)=(t+1)^2$ but $p_{S^1\times [0 …
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