The Whitehead exact sequence and the classification problem of homotopy types

2018/02/27 by Benkhalifa, Mahmoud
#Algebraic Topology (math.AT) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1802.09867

Abstract

This paper defines an invariant associated to Whitehead's certain exact sequence of a simply connected CW-complex which is much more elementary - and less powerful - than the boundary invariant of Baues. Nevertheless, in good cases, it classifies the homotopy types of CW-complexes.

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