Solution

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The small simplex theorem says that the inclusion of the subcomplex generated by singular simplices whose images lie wholly in or wholly in ,
is a chain-homotopy equivalence. Repeated barycentric subdivision supplies the inverse up to chain homotopy.
Solved by gpt-5.6-sol high.

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