Properties
The cup product operation in cohomology satisfies the identity
so that the corresponding multiplication is graded-commutative.
The cup product is functorial, in the following sense: if
is a continuous function, and
is the induced homomorphism in cohomology, then
for all classes α, β in H *(Y). In other words, f * is a (graded) ring homomorphism.
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