When a mapping that induces isomorphisms on all homotopy groups is a homotopy equivalence
Not to be confused with Whitehead problem or Whitehead conjecture.
In homotopy theory (a branch of mathematics), the Whitehead theorem states that if a continuous mapping f between CW complexes X and Y induces isomorphisms on all homotopy groups, then f is a homotopy equivalence. This result was proved by J. H. C. Whitehead in two landmark papers from 1949, and provides a justification for working with the concept of a CW complex that he introduced there. It is a model result of algebraic topology, in which the behavior of certain algebraic invariants (in this case, homotopy groups) determines a topological property of a mapping.
In homotopy theory (a branch of mathematics), the Whiteheadtheorem states that if a continuous mapping f between CW complexes X and Y induces isomorphisms...
the Poincaré conjecture, correcting an error in an earlier paper Whitehead (1934, theorem 3) where he incorrectly claimed that no such manifold exists. A...
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_{1}(A\cap B)} and the generalised Whitehead products. The proof of this theorem uses a higher homotopy van Kampen type theorem for triadic homotopy groups,...
the s-cobordism theorem states that if the manifolds are not simply-connected, an h-cobordism is a cylinder if and only if the Whitehead torsion of the...
Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school...
always contained in a finite subcomplex. CW complexes satisfy the Whiteheadtheorem: a map between CW complexes is a homotopy equivalence if and only...
contractible if all of its homotopy groups are trivial. It follows from Whitehead'sTheorem that if a CW-complex is weakly contractible then it is contractible...
incompleteness theorem of 1931, previous examples of undecidable statements (such as the continuum hypothesis) had all been in pure set theory. The Whitehead problem...
then X is a contractible space, as follows from the Whiteheadtheorem and the Hurewicz theorem. Acyclic spaces occur in topology, where they can be used...
yα. Since B is assumed to support a C∞ structure, according to the Whiteheadtheorem one can fix a Riemannian metric on B and choose the atlas U {\displaystyle...
contractible. Indeed, contractibility of a universal cover is the same, by Whitehead'stheorem, as asphericality of it. And it is an application of the exact sequence...
term. This result was later generalized by Rice's theorem. In 1973, Saharon Shelah showed the Whitehead problem in group theory is undecidable, in the first...
popular book Fermat's Last Theorem. Wiles has been awarded a number of major prizes in mathematics and science: Junior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical...
computational demonstration of theorems in PM Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy Hardy 2004, p. 83. Littlewood 1986, p. 130. Whitehead, Alfred North; Russell...