Smash product

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Definition

Given two topological spaces with basepoint, (X,x0) and (Y,y0), their smash product is defined as the quotient of X×Y by the following equivalence relation:

(x,y0)(x0,y)

In other words, we collapse both the copy of X and the copy of Y, through (x0,y0), to a single point.

Particular cases

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