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-dimensional homotopy group of a space at the distinguished point can be understood as the composition of and with :

Here, are maps which take a distinguished point to the point Note that the above uses the wedge sum of two functions, which is possible precisely because they agree at the point common to the wedge sum of the underlying spaces.

Categorical description

The wedge sum can be understood as the coproduct in the category of pointed spaces.

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