Homology of an equatorial sphere complement
ID: homology-of-an-equatorial-sphere-complement
For the standard coordinate inclusion of spheres, write points as , with in the complement. The map is a homeomorphism to , with inverse . Contracting the ball factor proves the displayed homotopy equivalence. In codimension one there are two contractible components, so integral is ; in higher codimension the only nonzero homology groups are and .
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