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Our aim in this chapter is to represent the spaces of based and free loops Ω(X) and Λ(X) as well as other associated spaces of a simply connected, countable CW-complex X with a single 0-vertex, e, as CW-complexes of a certain kind. In the case of Ω(X), the complex will have a nondegenerate product corresponding to the usual path multiplication. The first example of such constructions is the reduced-product complex X ∞ of [63, James]. The complexes we construct generalize his construction and will be called constructions of the reduced-product type, or RPT-complexes for short.
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Fadell, E.R., Husseini, S.Y. (2001). RPT-Constructions. In: Geometry and Topology of Configuration Spaces. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56446-8_12
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