Statement
Consider the tensor product of modules Hi(X, Z) ⊗ A.The theorem states that there is an injective group homomorphism ι from this group to Hi(X, A), which has cokernel Tor(Hi-1(X, Z), A). In other words, there is a natural short exact sequence
Furthermore, this is a split sequence (but the splitting is not natural).
The Tor group on the right can be thought of as the obstruction to ι being an isomorphism.
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