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    Examples and impossibilities relating homotopy, retracts, and low homology groups

    P-WESTOP08-II1

    Area
    Topology
    Seen at
    WESLEYAN
    Years
    2008
    Status
    draft
    Contents

    For connected spaces \(X,Y\), give an example satisfying each statement below or state that no example exists:

    1. \(X\simeq Y\) but \(X\not\cong Y\).
    2. \(X\simeq Y\), but neither is a deformation retract of the other.
    3. \(X\) is a deformation retract of \(Y\), but \(X\not\simeq Y\).
    4. \(X\simeq Y\) but \(\pi_1(X)\not\cong\pi_1(Y)\).
    5. \(\pi_1(X)\cong\pi_1(Y)\) but \(X\not\simeq Y\).
    6. \(X\) is a retract of \(Y\), but not a deformation retract of \(Y\).
    7. \(X\) is a deformation retract of \(Y\), but not a retract of \(Y\).
    8. \(X\) is a deformation retract of \(Y\), but \(\pi_1(X)\not\cong\pi_1(Y)\).
    9. \(H_1(X)\cong H_1(Y)\) but \(\pi_1(X)\not\cong\pi_1(Y)\).
    10. \(\pi_1(X)\cong\pi_1(Y)\) but \(H_1(X)\not\cong H_1(Y)\).
    11. \(H_2(X)\cong H_2(Y)\) but \(\pi_1(X)\not\cong\pi_1(Y)\).
    12. \(\pi_1(X)\cong\pi_1(Y)\) but \(H_2(X)\not\cong H_2(Y)\).

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