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Homotopy and The Fundamental Groups
---Jue Wang---Math 480
HOMOTOPY
HOMOTOPY
DEFINITION and PROPOSITION
Proposition:The relation of homotopy on paths with fixed base points is an equivalence relation.
Definition:The equivalence class of a path f under the equivalence relation of homotopy is called the homotopy class of f.
Definition:If a path f from I to X with the same starting and ending point, we say it is a loop.
The FUNDAMENTAL GROUP