Rationalization of a topological space

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For simply connected , rationalization of a topological space is a map to a rational space inducing . It is also a rational homology equivalence. Its universal property is the bijection for every rational space . A Postnikov tower constructs it by replacing each fibre group with its rational tensor product and transporting the Postnikov invariant through the resulting cohomology isomorphism, then taking the homotopy inverse limit.

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