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A proof of the homotopy push-out and pull-back lemma

Author(s): Michihiro Sakai
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 2461-2466.
MSC (2000): Primary 55R70
Posted: January 17, 2001
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Abstract:

The homotopy push-out and pull-back lemma of Iwase (1998) is a generalized version of Theorem 1.1 of Ganea (1965) and the Theorem of Rutter (1971) whose proofs were given under the simply-connectivity condition. The purpose of this paper is to give a proof in the general case.


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Michihiro Sakai
Affiliation: Graduate school of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, 812-8581
Email: msakai@math.kyushu-u.ac.jp

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-01-05856-7
PII: S 0002-9939(01)05856-7
Keywords: Homotopy push-out, homotopy pull-back, NDR-pair
Received by editor(s): December 1, 1999
Posted: January 17, 2001
Communicated by: Ralph Cohen
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society


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