 Excess of an admissible Steenrod sequence (source code)

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= Excess of an admissible Steenrod sequence
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= Steenrod excess
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The excess measures the minimum degree on which an admissible Steenrod monomial can be nonzero. Strict excess below $n$ picks out polynomial generators in the mod-two <cohomology> of $K(\mathbb Z/2,n)$; equality can correspond to a square, rather than a new generator.

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