Given a degree one normal map and a closed manifold one can form their product. The result is another degree one normal map. In this paper we calculate the surgery obstruction of the product in terms of the obstruction of the original normal map and invariants of the closed mani…
It is shown that a 2-connected homotopy commutative H-space with associative mod 2 homology ring and finitely generated mod 2 cohomology ring has acyclic mod 2 cohomology. This implies that a connected, homotopy commutative, homotopy associative H-space with finitely generated m…
Unstable coalgebras over the Steenrod algebra form a natural target category for singular homology with prime field coefficients. The realization problem asks whether an unstable coalgebra is isomorphic to the homology of a topological space. We study the moduli space of such re…
For each odd prime 'p' a simply connected finite H-space is constructed with p-torsion in homology. Implications of the examples for the theory of finite H-spaces are examined. Applications of the techniques used for the main results are given to mod p decomposition problems. An…
