New perspectives on the classifying space of the fibre of the double suspension

Selick, Paul; Theriault, Stephen

doi:10.1090/proc/14303

New perspectives on the classifying space of the fibre of the double suspension
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Abstract:

We give a new construction of a classifying space for the fibre of the double suspension and an elementary proof of Gray’s conjecture at odd primes.

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