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Chapter 24 Notation

\(I\)
Unit interval \([0,1]\)
\(I^n\text{,}\) \(\partial I^n\)
Unit \(n\)-cube and its boundary
\(I^{n-1}\text{,}\) \(J^{n-1}\)
Distinguished face of \(I^n\) and the closure of its complement in \(\partial I^n\) (Definition 6.1)
\(D^n\text{,}\) \(S^n\)
Closed unit \(n\)-disc and \(n\)-sphere
\(\mathbb{C}\)
Complex numbers; \(\mathbb{H}\) the quaternions
\(\mathbb{R}P^n\)
Real projective \(n\)-space
\(\mathbb{C}P^n\)
Complex projective \(n\)-space
\(f * g\)
Concatenation of paths (Definition 1.3)
\(\pi_n(X, x_0)\)
\(n\)-th homotopy group of \(X\) at \(x_0\)
\(\pi_n(X, A, x_0)\)
\(n\)-th relative homotopy group of the pair \((X,A)\)
\(\pi_q^{s}\)
\(q\)-th stable homotopy group of spheres (Definition 11.14)
\(\operatorname{Deck}(p)\)
Group of deck transformations of a covering \(p\) (Definition 3.4)
\(\Sigma X\text{,}\) \(\Omega X\)
Reduced suspension and based loop space (Definition 11.8)
\(\wedge\text{,}\) \(\vee\)
Smash product and wedge
\(M_f\text{,}\) \(CX\)
Mapping cylinder (Definition 8.3) and cone (Exercise 7.15)
\([X, Y]\text{,}\) \([X, Y]_*\)
Free and based homotopy classes of maps
\(K(G,n)\)
Eilenberg–MacLane space (Definition 13.1)
\(X_n\)
\(n\)-skeleton of a CW complex (Definition 7.1)
\(X_{\leq n}\text{,}\) \(X_{>n}\)
Postnikov section and \(n\)-connected cover (Theorem 22.1, Theorem 22.2)
\(\mathrm{Vect}_k(X)\text{,}\) \(K(X)\)
Rank-\(k\) vector bundles and topological K-theory (Definition 16.14)
\(BU(k)\text{,}\) \(BU\)
Classifying spaces for complex vector bundles (Definition 17.1, Definition 17.10)
\(E^r_{p,q}\text{,}\) \(E_r^{p,q}\)
Homological and cohomological spectral sequence pages
\(\Lambda(\ldots)\text{,}\) \(\Gamma[\,y\,]\)
Exterior algebra and divided power algebra (Theorem 20.3)
\(\simeq\)
Homotopy equivalence; \(\simeq_p\) for path homotopy
\(\cong\)
Isomorphism