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## Idea

The cellular approximation theorem states that every continuous map between CW complexes (with chosen CW presentations) is homotopic to a cellular map? (a map induced by a map of cell complexes).

This is a CW analogue of the simplicial approximation theorem (sometimes also called lemma): that every continuous map between the geometric realizations of simplicial complexes is homotopic to a map induced by a map of simplicial complexes (after subdivision).

## Statement

###### Theorem

Given a continuous map $f: (X, A) \to (X', A')$ between relative CW complexes that is cellular on a subcomplex $(Y, B)$ of $(X, A)$, there is a cellular map $g: (X, A) \to (X', A')$ that is homotopic to $f$ relative to $Y$.

• wikipedia: cellular approximation

• E. H. Spanier, Algebraic topology, Springer 1966, ch. 7. sec. 6

• A. Hatcher, Algebraic topology, Cambridge Univ. Press 2002 , link

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