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No retraction from a disk onto its boundary

Statement

For every integer n1, there is no continuous retraction DnSn1 of the closed unit ball onto its boundary.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The objects and hypotheses in the statement above.

[F1]

For n1, H~k(Sn;G) is G for k=n and 0 otherwise. For S0, H~0(S0;G)G and all other reduced groups vanish. Thus H0(Sn;G)G for n1, whereas H0(S0;G)GG. (Homology of spheres)

[F2]

For any abelian group G, H0(;G)G and Hn(;G)=0 for every integer n0. For every set-indexed family of pairs the canonical map αHn(Xα,Aα;G)Hn(αXα,αAα;G) is an isomorphism. Together with the structural axioms, singular homology is an ordinary theory with coefficient group G. (Singular homology satisfies dimension and arbitrary additivity)

[F3]

If X is a nonempty contractible topological space, then for every n0 and every abelian group G, Hnsing(X;G)Hnsing(;G), where denotes a one-point space. (Contractible nonempty spaces have the homology of a point)

Proof

1.1

The disk contracts by (x,t)(1t)x. Thus its reduced integral homology is zero, by F3 and the point computation F2. In contrast H~n1(Sn1;Z)=Z by F1, including reduced H0(S0) when n=1.

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2.1

A retraction r of the boundary inclusion i would satisfy ri=id. Functoriality on reduced homology would factor the identity of Z through the zero group H~n1(Dn;Z). That composite is zero, whereas the identity sends 1 to 1, a contradiction.

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