Higher homotopy commutativity and cohomology of finite H-spaces
arXiv:math/0408215 · doi:10.1215/21562261-3664941
Abstract
We study connected mod p finite A_p-spaces admitting AC_n-space structures with n<p for an odd prime p. Our result shows that if n is greator than (p-1)/2, then the mod p Steenrod algebra acts on the mod p cohomology of such a space in a systematic way. Moreover, we consider A_p-spaces which are mod p homotopy equivalent to product spaces of odd dimensional spheres. Then we determine the largest integer n for which such a space admits an AC_n-space structure compatible with the A_p-space structure.
This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 29 January 2007