The Gottlieb group of a wedge of suspensions (Q743689): Difference between revisions

Let \(X\) be a connected space and \(\pi_n(X)\) its \(n\)-th homotopy group. The Gottlieb groups \(G_n(X)\subseteq \pi_n(X)\) were introduced and studied by \textit{D. H. Gottlieb} [Am. J. Math. 91, 729--756 (1969; Zbl 0185.27102)] and have been shown to have many topological applications. The authors study \(G_n(\Sigma X_1\vee\cdots\vee \Sigma X_k)\), where \(\Sigma X_i\) is the suspension of the space \(X_i\) for \(i=1,\ldots, k\) with particular attention to the case \(k=2\) and \(X_i\) a sphere. Necessary and sufficient conditions for an element of \(\pi_n(\Sigma X_1\vee\cdots\vee \Sigma X_k)\) to be in \(G_n(\Sigma X_1\vee\cdots\vee \Sigma X_k)\) are presented and \(G_n(M(A,n))\) for some Moore spaces \(M(A,n)\) is computed.