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A NOTE ON THE UNSTABILITY CONDITIONS OF THE STEENROD SQUARES ON THE POLYNOMIAL ALGEBRA

  • Published : 2009.09.01
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Abstract

We extend some results involved the action of the Steenrod operations on monomials and get some corollaries on the hit problem. Then, by multiplying some special matrices, we obtain an efficient tool to compute the action of these operations.

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