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Higher homotopy operations and cohomology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2010

David Blanc ,
Mark W. Johnson  and
James M. Turner
David Blanc
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa, 31905 Haifa, Israel, blanc@math.haifa.ac.il.
Mark W. Johnson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Penn State Altoona, Altoona, PA 16601-3760, USA, mwj3@psu.edu.
James M. Turner
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, jturner@calvin.edu.
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Abstract

We explain how higher homotopy operations, defined topologically, may be identified under mild assumptions with (the last of) the Dwyer-Kan-Smith cohomological obstructions to rectifying homotopy-commutative diagrams.

Keywords

Higher homotopy operationsSO-cohomologyhomotopy-commutative diagramrectificationobstruction
Type
Research Article
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Journal of K-Theory , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , February 2010 , pp. 167 - 200
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Copyright © ISOPP 2010

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