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  2. Whitehead theorem - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. CW complex - Wikipedia

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    It was initially introduced by J. H. C. Whitehead to meet the needs of homotopy theory. [2] CW complexes have better categorical properties than simplicial complexes, but still retain a combinatorial nature that allows for computation (often with a much smaller complex). The C in CW stands for "closure-finite", and the W for "weak" topology. [2]

  4. Universal coefficient theorem - Wikipedia

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    Here might be the simplicial homology, or more generally the singular homology. The usual proof of this result is a pure piece of homological algebra about chain complexes of free abelian groups . The form of the result is that other coefficients A may be used, at the cost of using a Tor functor .

  5. Reduced homology - Wikipedia

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    H i (P) = {0}. More generally if X is a simplicial complex or finite CW complex, then the group H 0 (X) is the free abelian group with the connected components of X as generators. The reduced homology should replace this group, of rank r say, by one of rank r − 1. Otherwise the homology groups should remain unchanged.

  6. Mayer–Vietoris sequence - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Bockstein spectral sequence - Wikipedia

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    When =, this is the same thing as the universal coefficient theorem for homology. Assume the abelian group () is finitely generated; in particular, only finitely many cyclic modules of the form / can appear as a direct summand of ().

  8. Whitehead's lemma (Lie algebra) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Weakly contractible - Wikipedia

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    This does not contradict Whitehead theorem since the Long Line does not have the homotopy type of a CW-complex. Another prominent example for this phenomenon is the Warsaw circle . References