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Aug 6, 2010 at 10:17 comment added Simon Pepin Lehalleur The wikipedia webpage en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehead_torsion is very nice and explains how this invariant is related to algebraic $K_1$ of the group ring of $\pi_1$, hence to elementary matrix operations.
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Aug 6, 2010 at 0:18 comment added Harry Gindi By the way, what's the precise definition of a collapse of a simplicial set? All of the definitions I've found are only for simplicial complexes or CW complexes?
Aug 6, 2010 at 0:07 history answered Ryan Budney CC BY-SA 2.5