Homotopy of compact orientable surfaces

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This article describes the value (and the process used to compute it) of some homotopy invariant(s) for a topological space or family of topological spaces. The invariant is homotopy group and the topological space/family is compact orientable surface
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Statement

This article describes the homotopy groups, including the set of path components π0, the fundamental group π1, and the higher homotopy groups πk of the compact orientable surface Σg, which can be defined as the connected sum of g many copies of the 2-torus. For g=0, we obtain the 2-sphere, and for g=1, we get the 2-torus.

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