Timeline for The definition of a CW complex and related notions
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| Apr 22, 2013 at 12:15 | comment | added | John Klein | @James: the language is very common, if not quite standard. There probably is no standard language. | |
| Dec 19, 2011 at 10:46 | comment | added | James Griffin | Can you persuade me that this is standard language? For instance J.H.C. Whitehead in Combinatorial Homotopy I, describes a cell complex as a space with a CW-like decomposition but without the topological conditions. In particular he asks that the boundary of an n-cell is in the (n-1)-skeleton. | |
| Dec 17, 2011 at 15:07 | comment | added | Peter May | This answer, a cell complex, not only has the merit of brevity, but also it makes sense and applies prior to any knowledge of model category. This is standard, and helpful while proving the model axioms. More substantially, it applies in many general situations where one may or may not have a model structure. | |
| Dec 17, 2011 at 14:57 | history | answered | Tyler Lawson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |