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For a more explicit example than Chris's, consider the map from the (2-dimensional) torus to a sphere that collapses the 1-skeleton of the usual CW complex and takes the 2-cell to the 2-cell of the sphere. The torus is $K(1, \mathbb{Z}^2)$$K(\mathbb{Z}^2,1)$, so this necessarily gives zero maps on homotopy, but it's also pretty clearly not null-homotopic.

For a more explicit example than Chris's, consider the map from the (2-dimensional) torus to a sphere that collapses the 1-skeleton of the usual CW complex and takes the 2-cell to the 2-cell of the sphere. The torus is $K(1, \mathbb{Z}^2)$, so this necessarily gives zero maps on homotopy, but it's also pretty clearly not null-homotopic.

For a more explicit example than Chris's, consider the map from the (2-dimensional) torus to a sphere that collapses the 1-skeleton of the usual CW complex and takes the 2-cell to the 2-cell of the sphere. The torus is $K(\mathbb{Z}^2,1)$, so this necessarily gives zero maps on homotopy, but it's also pretty clearly not null-homotopic.

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Dylan Thurston
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For a simplermore explicit example than Chris's, consider the map from the (2-dimensional) torus to a sphere that collapses the 1-skeleton of the usual CW complex and takes the 2-cell to the 2-cell of the sphere. The torus is $K(1, \mathbb{Z}^2)$, so this necessarily gives zero maps on homotopy, but it's also pretty clearly not null-homotopic.

For a simpler example than Chris's, consider the map from the (2-dimensional) torus to a sphere that collapses the 1-skeleton of the usual CW complex and takes the 2-cell to the 2-cell of the sphere. The torus is $K(1, \mathbb{Z}^2)$, so this necessarily gives zero maps on homotopy, but it's also pretty clearly not null-homotopic.

For a more explicit example than Chris's, consider the map from the (2-dimensional) torus to a sphere that collapses the 1-skeleton of the usual CW complex and takes the 2-cell to the 2-cell of the sphere. The torus is $K(1, \mathbb{Z}^2)$, so this necessarily gives zero maps on homotopy, but it's also pretty clearly not null-homotopic.

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For a simpler example than Chris's, consider the map from the (2-dimensional) torus to a sphere that collapses the 1-skeleton of the usual CW complex and takes the 2-cell to the 2-cell of the sphere. The torus is $K(1, \mathbb{Z}^2)$, so this necessarily gives zero maps on homotopy, but it's also pretty clearly not null-homotopic.