Weakly contractible space

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Definition

A topological space is said to be weakly contractible if all its homotopy groups are trivial. In other words, any map from a sphere to the given topological space, is nullhomotopic.

Relation with other properties

Stronger properties

• Contractible space: The converse implication holds for CW-spaces, via Whitehead's theorem

Metaproperties

Since the homotopy group of the product of two spaces is the product of their homotopy groups, the product of two weakly contractible spaces is again weakly contractible.