Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:24:12 -0600 (CST)
From: Brayton Gray <brayton@math.nwu.edu>
Subject: Re: Stasheff query

It is and always has been called a Toda bracket, except by Toda, who
called it a secondary composition.

Brayton Gray


On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, DON DAVIS wrote:

> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 07:21:39 -0500 (EST)
> From: James Stasheff <jds@math.unc.edu>
> Subject: query
>
> Refresh my memory or update it.  The analog of Massey products
> for composition of maps
> cf. fgh with fg homtopic to constant and gh likewise
> is (now?) called a
> Toda bracket?
> or
> ______________??
>
> the reason I ask is an amazing (to me?) application
> by Polishchuk
> math.AG/9803017
>
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