nLab Samelson product

Related concepts

• Whitehead product

References

Original reference:

• Hans Samelson. A Connection Between the Whitehead and the Pontryagin Product. American Journal of Mathematics 75:4 (1953), 744–752. doi:10.2307/2372549

Expository accounts:

• Joseph Neisendorfer, Samelson products and exponents of homotopy groups,

  Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures 8:2 (2013), 239-277. doi:10.1007/s40062-012-0021-4.

• Joseph Neisendorfer. Samelson products, Chapter 6 in: Algebraic Methods in Unstable Homotopy Theory, 158-220. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511691638.008.

History:

• Ioan Mackenzie James, Products between homotopy groups, Compositio Mathematica, Volume 23 (1971) no. 3, p. 329-345 (numdam)