Timeline for Analogue to covering space for higher homotopy groups?
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| Nov 21, 2009 at 21:41 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | This is a special case of Reid Barton's example. It's the Hurewicz-Serre "killing homotopy groups" technique. You kill the first non-trivial homotopy group, and turn the map X' --> X into a fibration. It's a standard technique to compute homotopy groups of spheres and appears in many algebraic topology textbooks. | |
| Nov 21, 2009 at 15:40 | history | edited | Somnath Basu | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 21, 2009 at 8:02 | history | answered | Somnath Basu | CC BY-SA 2.5 |