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Noah Snyder
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Are the higher homotopy groups of the Hawaiian earring trivial?

The fundamental group of the Hawaiian earring is very complicated, but since it's "1-dimensional" one might guess that the higher homotopy groups vanish. Do they? Since the Hawaiian earring does not have a universal cover, the standard approach to showing that higher homotopy groups of graphs vanish does not apply.