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TauCeti.AlgebraicTopology.UniversalCover.Circle.EilenbergMacLane

Circles as Eilenberg--Mac Lane spaces #

A real additive circle of nonzero period is a K(ℤ, 1): it is path-connected, its fundamental group is infinite cyclic, and all its higher homotopy groups vanish.

These results package the existing circle calculations into the Eilenberg--Mac Lane API. The fundamental-group witness is AddCircle.fundamentalGroupMulEquiv, and higher homotopy vanishing is supplied by AddCircle.subsingleton_homotopyGroup.

This realizes TauCetiRoadmap/UniversalCovers/README.md, Stage 4, item 13, "K(G, 1) spaces", for circles.

Main declarations #

Every real additive circle is aspherical. The nonzero-period hypothesis is needed only for the later identification of its fundamental group with ℤ.

A real additive circle with nonzero period is an Eilenberg--Mac Lane space of type K(ℤ, 1), with ℤ written multiplicatively to match the fundamental group.