Abstract
Although the R-completion is quite well understood for nilpotent spaces (Ch.V and Ch.VI), the situation for non-nilpotent spaces is still very mysterious. So far we have essentially dealt with only one non-nilpotent example, in Ch.IV, 5.3, where we showed that for any free group F
and our main purpose in this chapter is to discuss some other non-nilpotent spaces and indicate how little is known about them and how much more work remains to be done for non-nilpotent spaces.
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- Fundamental Group
- Spectral Sequence
- Homotopy Type
- Homotopy Group
- Perfect Group
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Bousfield, A.K., Kan, D.M. (1972). A glimpse at the R-completion of non-nilpotent spaces. In: Homotopy Limits, Completions and Localizations. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 304. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38117-4_7
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