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Touching the Z2 in Three-Dimensional Rotations

Vesna Stojanoska, Orlin Stoytchev

math.HOarXiv:math/0508203

Abstract

A simple and self-contained proof is presented of the well-known fact that the fundamental group of SO(3) is Z2, using a relationship between closed paths in SO(3) and braids.

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