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Let X be a space and let x 0 be a point in X. In section 2.1 we introduced the fundamental group \(\pi _{1}(X,x_{0})\). In this chapter we introduce the homotopy groups \(\pi _{n}(X,x_{0})\) for every n ≥ 0. Also, if (X, A, x 0) is a triple, i.e., if A is a subspace of X and x 0 is a point in A, we have the relative homotopy groups \(\pi _{n}(X,A,x_{0})\) for every n ≥ 1.
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Weintraub, S.H. (2014). Homotopy Theory. In: Fundamentals of Algebraic Topology. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 270. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1844-7_7
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