Alexander-Whitney map
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Definition
The Alexander-Whitney map is a natural transformation between the following two bifunctors on topological spaces: and ( here denotes the singular chain complex functor).
The Eilenberg-Zilber map is a natural transformation in the reverse direction, and the composite both ways is naturally chain-homotopic to the identity transformations on the two functors.
Explicitly the Alexander-Whitney map is given as follows:
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