Homotopy inverse limit of a tower
ID: homotopy-inverse-limit-of-a-tower
For a sequence of maps , its homotopy inverse limit records points and paths from the image of to , with the usual homotopy-coherent compatibility. A fibrant replacement tower computes it by an ordinary inverse limit. For a tower whose homotopy groups are eventually constant in each degree, the limit has those stable groups: the Milnor inverse-limit exact sequence has zero derived-limit term. In particular is a weak equivalence for the Postnikov tower of a connected CW complex.
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