Appendix: Homotopy Groups and Čech Cohomology Groups
摘要
As mentioned in the Preface, knowledge of homotopy groups is not required to read Sect. 4.20 but the second half of Chap. 7 requires basic results for homotopy groups. We review here homotopy groups and characterize n-equivalences and weak homotopy equivalences in terms of homotopy groups. Moreover, we also prove some theorems which are required in the second half of Chap. 7 . In Sect. 7.9 , avoiding the use of cohomology groups, we defined the cohomological dimension \(\operatorname {cd}_\mathbb {Z}X\) by using the Eilenberg–MacLane complex \(K(\mathbb {Z},n)\) .