Computing All Maps into a Sphere
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Year of publication | 2014 |
Type | Article in Periodical |
Magazine / Source | Journal of the ACM |
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Web | http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2628069&picked=prox&CFID=376770929&CFTOKEN=17552719 |
Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2597629 |
Field | General mathematics |
Keywords | Computational topology; homotopy groups; Postnikov systems |
Description | We give an algorithm which for given finite simplicial complexes X and Y such that the dimension of X is less than 2d-1 and Y is (d-1)-connected (d bigger than 1) computes the structure of the group [X,Y] of all homotopy classes of maps from X to Y. |
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