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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 165 2 vi Solution by
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Products of Eilenberg–MacLane spaces satisfywhere the last isomorphism uses the Chinese remainder theorem. This space is -connected, so the Hurewicz theorem identifiesThe assumed surjection on is an isomorphism because the group is finite. Hence is an isomorphism on ; all other homotopy groups of the source and target vanish. Thus is a weak homotopy equivalence, and the Whitehead theorem for Kan complexes makes it a homotopy equivalence.
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