Configuration spaces are not homotopy invariant (Q1767613)

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    Configuration spaces are not homotopy invariant
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      Configuration spaces are not homotopy invariant (English)
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      8 March 2005
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      The authors prove the statement in the title. A counterexample is provided by comparing Massey products in the universal coverings of the spaces of configurations of 2 points in the lens spaces \(L_{7,1}\) and \(L_{7,2}\).
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      configuration space
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      Massey products
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      homotopy invariant
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