A colimit of classifying spaces

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2009.11.003zbMATH Open1200.55023arXiv0804.3581OpenAlexW1999296096MaRDI QIDQ962143FDOQ962143

Authors: Roman Mikhailov, Graham Ellis 

Publication date: 6 April 2010

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We recall a group-theoretic description of the first non-vanishing homotopy group of a certain (n+1)-ad of spaces and show how it yields several formulae for homotopy and homology groups of specific spaces. In particular we obtain an alternative proof of J. Wu's group-theoretic description of the homotopy groups of a 2-sphere.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3581

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zbMATH Keywords

homotopy colimithomotopy groupcombinatorial group theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Homotopy groups of special spaces (55Q52) Homotopy groups of spheres (55Q40) Maps between classifying spaces in algebraic topology (55R37)

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