Subject: `wellknown'? Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 17:18:52 -0400 From: jim stasheff To: dondavis The following was news to me and does not seem to be in the obvious texts: Let X --> Y be a 2-fold covering space where X and Y are n-manifolds. Let b_k dentoe the k-th betti number. Claim: b_k (X) = b_k (Y) + b_{n-k} (Y) anyone know a reference? jim