Title: Homotopy Theory: Fundamental Group and Higher Homotopy Groups
Abstract:This chapter officially inaugurates homotopy theory to begin a study of algebraic topology by conveying the basic concepts of homotopy and fundamental groups born through the work of H. Poincaré (1854...This chapter officially inaugurates homotopy theory to begin a study of algebraic topology by conveying the basic concepts of homotopy and fundamental groups born through the work of H. Poincaré (1854–1912) in his land-marking 'Analysis Situs,' Paris, 1895, and also discusses higher homotopy groups constructed in 1935 by H. Hurewicz (1904–1956) in his paper [Hurewicz, 1935], which are natural generalizations of fundamental groups. Homotopy theory studies those properties of topological spaces and continuous maps which are invariants under homotopic maps, called homotopy invariants. Finally, this chapter presents some interesting applications of homotopy, fundamental and higher homotopy groups in analysis, geometry, algebra, matrix theory, atmospheric science, vector field and extension problems and some others.Read More
Publication Year: 2022
Publication Date: 2022-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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