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Compressible maps
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by Jay E. Goldfeather PDF
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 60 (1976), 339-342 Request permission

Abstract:

Weingram has shown that if G is a finitely generated abelian group, then every nontrivial map $f:\Omega {S^{2n + 1}} \to K(G,2n)$ is incompressible; that is, f is not homotopic to a map whose image is contained in some finite-dimensional skeleton. It is shown that a nontrivial map $\Omega {S^{2n + 1}} \to K(G,2n)$ may be compressible if G is not finitely generated. This result leads to some understanding of the obstructions to compressibility in Weingram’s Theorem.
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Additional Information
  • © Copyright 1976 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 60 (1976), 339-342
  • MSC: Primary 55D35
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1976-0423339-9
  • MathSciNet review: 0423339