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Example of singular 1-chains: The violet and orange 1-chains cannot be realized as a boundary of a 2-chain. The usual construction of singular homology proceeds by defining formal sums of simplices, which may be understood to be elements of a free abelian group, and then showing that we can define a certain group, the homology group of the topological space, involving the boundary operator.
Algebraic topology is a branch of mathematics that uses tools from abstract algebra to study topological spaces. The basic goal is to find algebraic invariants that classify topological spaces up to homeomorphism, though usually most classify up to homotopy equivalence. Although algebraic topology primarily uses algebra to study topological ...
Allen Hatcher and William Thurston, A presentation for the mapping class group of a closed orientable surface, Topology 19 (1980), no. 3, 221–237. Allen Hatcher, On the boundary curves of incompressible surfaces, Pacific Journal of Mathematics 99 (1982), no. 2, 373–377.
Hatcher, A., Algebraic Topology, Cambridge University Press (2002) ISBN 0-521-79540-0. Detailed discussion of homology theories for simplicial complexes and manifolds, singular homology, etc. May JP (1999). A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology (PDF). University of Chicago Press. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09
Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002. ISBN 0-521-79540-0. A modern, geometrically flavored introduction to algebraic topology. The book is available free in PDF and PostScript formats on the author's homepage. Kainen, P. C. (1971). "Weak Adjoint Functors". Mathematische Zeitschrift. 122: 1– 9.
In algebraic topology, the cellular approximation theorem states that a map between CW-complexes can always be taken to be of a specific type. Concretely, if X and Y are CW-complexes, and f : X → Y is a continuous map, then f is said to be cellular , if f takes the n -skeleton of X to the n -skeleton of Y for all n , i.e. if f ( X n ) ⊆ Y n ...
In mathematics, specifically algebraic topology, an Eilenberg–MacLane space [note 1] is a topological space with a single nontrivial homotopy group. Let G be a group and n a positive integer . A connected topological space X is called an Eilenberg–MacLane space of type K ( G , n ) {\displaystyle K(G,n)} , if it has n -th homotopy group π n ...
In mathematics, more specifically algebraic topology, a pair (,) is shorthand for an inclusion of topological spaces:.Sometimes is assumed to be a cofibration.A morphism from (,) to (′, ′) is given by two maps : ′ and : ′ such that ′ =.