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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 111 4 c Solution by
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Order the chambers by nondecreasing Coxeter length, beginning with . When is attached, letbe its right descent set. Claim C2 applied to the coset , followed by C1, shows that is spherical. The part of already present is exactlyIt is nonempty for and is contractible by C3. The chamber is contractible as well, so C4 shows inductively that every finite length-ordered union of chambers is contractible.
The Davis complex is a CW complex and is the increasing union of these chamber unions. Every map from a sphere has compact image and therefore lies in a finite union; the next finite contractible union null-homotopes it. Thus every homotopy group of the Davis complex vanishes. Since it is connected, the Whitehead theorem implies
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