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For instance, take X= S 2 × RP 3 and Y= RP 2 × S 3. Then X and Y have the same fundamental group, namely the cyclic group Z/2, and the same universal cover, namely S 2 × S 3; thus, they have isomorphic homotopy groups. On the other hand their homology groups are different (as can be seen from the Künneth formula); thus, X and Y are not ...
It can be constructed from two points (x and y), and the 1-dimensional ball B (an interval), such that one endpoint of B is glued to x and the other is glued to y. The two points x and y are the 0-cells; the interior of B is the 1-cell. Alternatively, it can be constructed just from a single interval, with no 0-cells. A circle.
This becomes straightforward in the absence of 2-torsion in the homology. Quite generally, the result indicates the relationship that holds between the Betti numbers b i of X and the Betti numbers b i,F with coefficients in a field F. These can differ, but only when the characteristic of F is a prime number p for which there is some p-torsion ...
The Brouwer fixed point theorem: every continuous map from the unit n-disk to itself has a fixed point. The free rank of the nth homology group of a simplicial complex is the nth Betti number, which allows one to calculate the Euler–Poincaré characteristic.
In homological algebra, Whitehead's lemmas (named after J. H. C. Whitehead) represent a series of statements regarding representation theory of finite-dimensional, semisimple Lie algebras in characteristic zero. Historically, they are regarded as leading to the discovery of Lie algebra cohomology. [1]
There are two basic invariants of a space X in the rational homotopy category: the rational cohomology ring (,) and the homotopy Lie algebra ().The rational cohomology is a graded-commutative algebra over , and the homotopy groups form a graded Lie algebra via the Whitehead product.
Let X be a topological space and A, B be two subspaces whose interiors cover X. (The interiors of A and B need not be disjoint.) The Mayer–Vietoris sequence in singular homology for the triad (X, A, B) is a long exact sequence relating the singular homology groups (with coefficient group the integers Z) of the spaces X, A, B, and the intersection A∩B. [8]
Two pairs (X 1, A) and (X 2, A) are said to be equivalent, if there is a simple homotopy equivalence between X 1 and X 2 relative to A. The set of such equivalence classes form a group where the addition is given by taking union of X 1 and X 2 with common subspace A. This group is natural isomorphic to the Whitehead group Wh(A) of the CW-complex A.