Two responses to question about symmetric products........DMD
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Subject: Re: question abt symm products
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:53:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Jean-Pierre Meyer <jpm@math.jhu.edu>

There was a lot of activity in this field in the late 50s and 60s.  Look
for papers by Nakaoka, Dold and Swan especially.  The exact references
can be found either in Steenrod's collection of reviews or on Mathscinet.

Jean-Pierre Meyer
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Subject: Re: question abt symm products
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 10:08:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Jim Milgram <milgram@math.Stanford.EDU>

For the complete description see "The homology of symmetric products,"
Trans AMS 138 ( 1969), 251 - 265 by R J Milgram

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Donald Davis wrote:

> Subject: question for the list
> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:04:01 +0100
> From: Yuli Rudyak <rudyak@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de>
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> I have a question for the list..
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> What is known about homology of the finite symmetric products of spaces?
> (This
> is the Cartesian product divided by the symmetric group action.)
>
> Yuli Rudyak
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>