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November 13, 2014
Thursday, November 13
Homotopy Theory
Time: 13:00
Speaker: Gaohong Wang (Western)
Title: "Fiber sequences and the Hopf fibration"
Room: MC 107

Abstract: We introduce fiber sequences and the Hopf fibration $S^3 \to S^2$ in HoTT, and we show that the Hopf fibration induces equivalences between the homotopy groups $\pi_k$ of $S^3$ and $S^2$ for $k>2$. We also deduce that $\pi_2(S^2)$ is equivalent to $Z$. We will review the background on truncations and connectedness in this talk too.