2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/70190Symmetric products of curves are important spaces for both geometers and topologists, and increasingly useful objects for physicists. We summarize in this note some of their basic homotopy theoretic properties and derive a handful of known and less well-known results about them.13 pagesAlgebraic TopologyAlgebraic Geometrytext