Paper 2, Section II, G

Algebraic Topology
Part II, 2013

(i) State the Seifert-van Kampen theorem.

(ii) Assuming any standard results about the fundamental group of a circle that you wish, calculate the fundamental group of the nn-sphere, for every n2n \geqslant 2.

(iii) Suppose that n3n \geqslant 3 and that XX is a path-connected topological nn-manifold. Show that π1(X,x0)\pi_{1}\left(X, x_{0}\right) is isomorphic to π1(X{P},x0)\pi_{1}\left(X-\{P\}, x_{0}\right) for any PX{x0}P \in X-\left\{x_{0}\right\}.