Let Sn denote the sphere of all points in Euclidean space Rn + 1 at a distance of 1 from the origin and Dn + 1 the ball of all points in Rn + 1 at a distance not exceeding 1 from the origin The space X is said to be aspherical if for every n ≧ 2 and every continuous mapping: f: Sn → X, there exists a continuous mapping g: Dn + 1 → X with restriction to the subspace Sn equal to f. Thus, the only homotopy group of X which might be non-zero is the fundamental group τ1(X, *) ≅ G. If X is also a cell-complex, it is called a K(G, 1). If X and Y are K(G, l)'s, then they have the same homotopy type, and consequently
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