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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 114 1 d Solution by
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No. If a finite CW complex had exactly one two-cell, then . The isomorphism forces and : a subquotient of can remain infinite cyclic only in this way. Consequentlyis a subgroup of the free abelian group and is therefore torsion-free. This contradicts the homotopy-invariant calculation .
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