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A Mysterious Tensor Product in Topology

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We describe the construction of the tensor product of topological operads introduced by Boardman and Vogt, and explain some questions about it that have been puzzling Vogt and others for many years.

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Moerdijk, I. (2023). A Mysterious Tensor Product in Topology. In: Morel, JM., Teissier, B. (eds) Mathematics Going Forward . Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2313. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12244-6_16

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