Natural Group Structures on Sets of Homotopy Classes . Absolute Homotopy Groups . Local Systems of Homotopy Groups of a Topological Space . Relative Homotopy Groups . Bundles and Homotopy Groups . The Local System of Homotopy Groups of the Fibres of a Serre Bundle .
Two top experts in topology, O.Ya. Viro and D.B. Fuchs, give an up-to-date account of research in central areas of topology and the theory of Lie groups. They cover homotopy, homology and cohomology as well as the theory of manifolds, Lie groups, Grassmanians and low-dimensional manifolds.Their book will be used by graduate students and researchers in mathematics and mathematical physics.