{ "id": "1810.06505", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-10-15T16:36:02.000Z", "updated": "2018-10-15T16:36:02.000Z", "title": "An Axiomatic Characterization of Steenrod's cup-$i$ Products", "authors": [ "A. M. Medina-Mardones" ], "categories": [ "math.AT" ], "abstract": "We present axioms that determine the cup-$i$ products introduced explicitly by Steenrod up to isomorphism, and not just homotopy. As is well known, these products generalize the Alexander-Whitney cup product on cochains and induce the Steenrod squares in cohomology.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-10-15T16:36:02.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "axiomatic characterization", "alexander-whitney cup product", "steenrod squares", "isomorphism" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }