There exists
such that
and
are respectively homotopic to
id
and
id
. By theorem 11.5
differs from the identity map on
by a composition
with the isomorphism
where
is a path joining
and
. In particular
is bijective and so
is surjective and
is injective. Likewise, working with
one concludes that
is surjective and
is injective.
Hence
is an isomorphism between
and
.
nisha
2012-03-20