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homotopy
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Homotopy
In
topology
, two
continuous function
s from one
topological space
to another are called
homotopic
(
Greek
ὁμός (
homós
) = same, similar, and τόπος (
tópos
) = place) if one can be "continuously deformed" into the other, such a deformation being called a
homotopy
between the two functions. A notable use of homotopy is the definition of
homotopy groups
and
cohomotopy groups
, important
invariant
s in
algebraic topology
.
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