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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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    CW complexes satisfy the Whitehead theorem: a map between CW complexes is a homotopy equivalence if and only if it induces an isomorphism on all homotopy groups. A covering space of a CW complex is also a CW complex. [13] The product of two CW complexes can be made into a CW complex.

  4. Algebraic topology - Wikipedia

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    The Brouwer fixed point theorem: every continuous map from the unit n-disk to itself has a fixed point. The free rank of the n th homology group of a simplicial complex is the n th Betti number , which allows one to calculate the Euler–Poincaré characteristic .

  5. Homological algebra - Wikipedia

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    For all integers r ≥ r 0, an object E r, called a sheet (as in a sheet of paper), or sometimes a page or a term, Endomorphisms d r : E r → E r satisfying d r o d r = 0, called boundary maps or differentials, Isomorphisms of E r+1 with H(E r), the homology of E r with respect to d r. The E 2 sheet of a cohomological spectral sequence

  6. 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]

  7. Alexander duality - Wikipedia

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    That is, the correct answer in honest Betti numbers is 2, 0, 0. Once more, it is the reduced Betti numbers that work out. With those, we begin with 0, 1, 0. to finish with 1, 0, 0. From these two examples, therefore, Alexander's formulation can be inferred: reduced Betti numbers ~ are related in complements by

  8. Betti number - Wikipedia

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    In algebraic topology, the Betti numbers are used to distinguish topological spaces based on the connectivity of n-dimensional simplicial complexes.For the most reasonable finite-dimensional spaces (such as compact manifolds, finite simplicial complexes or CW complexes), the sequence of Betti numbers is 0 from some point onward (Betti numbers vanish above the dimension of a space), and they ...

  9. Poincaré duality - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the Poincaré duality theorem, named after Henri Poincaré, is a basic result on the structure of the homology and cohomology groups of manifolds.It states that if M is an n-dimensional oriented closed manifold (compact and without boundary), then the kth cohomology group of M is isomorphic to the (n − k) th homology group of M, for all integers k