Quasifibrations and Bott periodicity (Q1807566)
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Quasifibrations and Bott periodicity (English)
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23 May 2000
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The authors give a new proof of the Bott periodicity theorem, along the lines proposed by McDuff. The proof is based on the construction of a quasifibration over \(U\) with contractible total space and \(\mathbb Z\times BU\) as fiber.
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homotopy groups
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spaces and groups of matrices
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