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The functor A min on p-local spaces

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In a previous paper, the authors gave the finest functorial decomposition of the loop suspension of a p-torsion suspension. The purpose of this paper is to generalize this theorem to the loop suspension of arbitrary p-local path connected spaces.

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Selick, P., Wu, J. The functor A min on p-local spaces. Math. Z. 253, 435–451 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00209-005-0909-3

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