Cohomology ring of a Hopf attachment with a sphere summand
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For the Hopf map , the indicated four-cell attachment has cellular boundary multiplication by from dimension four to three. Its integral cohomology is in degrees zero and two, in degree three, and in degree four. If generates degree two and is the four-cell cochain class, then , with every other positive-degree product zero. Collapsing the three-sphere reduces the cup-square calculation to the Hopf invariant; the induced map on degree-four cohomology reduces its integer coefficient modulo . When there is an extra free degree-three class, whose products still vanish by dimension.
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