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We give three different cohomological characterizations of classifying spaces of p-compact toral groups amongst finite Postnikov systems satisfying mild conditions. This leads to a unifying generalization of previous versions of Serre’s theorem on the homotopy groups of a finite complex.
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Grodal, J. (2001). Serre’s theorem and the Nil l filtration of Lionel Schwartz. In: Aguadé, J., Broto, C., Casacuberta, C. (eds) Cohomological Methods in Homotopy Theory. Progress in Mathematics, vol 196. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8312-2_13
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