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Calculating and interpreting the Mislin genus of a special class of nilpotent spaces

Author(s): Peter Hilton; Dirk Scevenels
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 3433-3438.
MSC (1991): Primary 55P60; Secondary 20F18
Posted: June 17, 1999
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Abstract: We prove that there is a bijection between the Mislin genus of a circle bundle over a certain nilpotent base space $M$, which is constructed from a nilpotent group $N$ of a certain specified type, and the Mislin genus of $N$ itself.


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Additional Information:

Peter Hilton
Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York 13902--6000

Dirk Scevenels
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816--1364 - Departement Wiskunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 B, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium
Email: dirk.scevenels@wis.kuleuven.ac.be

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-99-05202-8
PII: S 0002-9939(99)05202-8
Received by editor(s): February 9, 1998
Posted: June 17, 1999
Communicated by: Ralph Cohen
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society


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