Questions tagged [homology]
Homology is a general way of associating a sequence of algebraic objects such as abelian groups or modules to other mathematical objects such as topological spaces.
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Alexander duality for Homology sphere which is the Geometric realization of a finite simplicial complex
The Alexander duality Theorem is usually stated for a triangulable pair $(\mathbb S^n, Y)$ where $Y$ is a subset of the standard sphere $\mathbb S^n$. My question is: Does the duality also hold if we ...
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Where can I find W. Browder's thesis
I've been looking for W. Browder's thesis Homology of loop spaces for a while now, and I really found nothing except for articles and book having it in their bibliography. Does someone know if it can ...
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Euler class and the real homological class of the fiber in an orientable sphere bundle
In the paper Foliations transverse to the fiber of a bundle, Plante considers the following example. Let $p:E\longrightarrow B$ a orientable fiber bundle with fiber $\mathbb{S}^k$. We have the Gysin ...
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A stronger generalized Jordan curve theorem
The generalized Jordan curve theorem is usually stated as such:
Given $X\subseteq S^n$ such that $X$ is homeomorphic to $S^k$, $$\tilde{H}_i(S^n\setminus X)\cong\begin{cases}\mathbb{Z},\quad i=n-k-...
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If all 2-faces of a polytope are $2n$-gons, is the edge-graph bipartite?
This question on MSE has not received a satisfying answer. It can be summarized as follows:
Question: Is is true that the edge-graph of a (convex) polytope is bipartite if and only if all 2-faces ...
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Homology of configuration space of punctured projective spaces?
Let $M=\mathbb{C}P^n$ or $\mathbb{R}P^n$ with $m$ punctures, is it known what the homology of the configuration space, $H_*(C_k(M))$ is? How are cases $\mathbb{C}P^n$ and $\mathbb{R}P^n$ different?
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Fibrant objects in $\mathbb{S}$-local model structure on $Top_*$
Let $\mathbb{S}$ be the sphere spectrum. We can localize the category of based spaces, $Top_*$ at a homology theory, and hence at $\mathbb{S}$.
Equipping $Top_*$ with the Quillen model structure (...
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Explicit action of the Dehn twist in the homology of punctured sphere with local coefficients
Let $X=\mathbb{P}^1\setminus S$, where $S=\{a_1,\dots, a_k\}$ is a finite subset of $\mathbb{P}^1$ and we may assume that $|S|\geq 4$. Let $\mathbb{L}$ be a local system on $X$ given by a monodromy ...
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How to identify cup product with intersection
What's the standard generalization and reference for the following statement:
If two oriented submanifolds $L$, $L'$ of an oriented compact manifold $M$ intersect transversally, then the Poincare ...
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mod $p$ homology of Thom spectra MSU
Using pairing in Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence one can show that homology of $BU(n)$ is a free abelian group with basis $\alpha_{k_1}\cdots\alpha_{k_t}$, $k\leqslant n$, where $\alpha_{i} = \big(...
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Embeddedness and homology of a limit of minimal surfaces
Consider the following theorem, proved in
this paper:
Theorem (Theorem 6.1). Suppose we have a sequence $(\Sigma_j, \partial \Sigma_j) \subset (M, \partial M)$ of immersed free boundary minimal $...
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When homology isomorphism implies homotopy isomorphism
Let's suppose that
$f:X\rightarrow X$ is a continuous map such that
$H_{\ast}(f): H_{\ast}(X)\rightarrow H_{\ast}(X)$ is a homology isomorphism (with integral coefficients)
$X$ is a finite ...
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Looking for examples of not injective maps and not surjective maps of the form $ A_{k} (X) \to H_{2k} ( X , \mathbb{Z} ) $
Here: https://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~gathmann/class/alggeom-2002/alggeom-2002-c9.pdf, on pages: $ 1 $ and $ 2 $, we find the following paragraph:
For any scheme of finite type over a ground field ...
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Alexander duality and homology equivalence
While reading the paper of Kauffman and Taylor "Signature of links" I found the following situation.
In the proof of Theorem 2.6 they suppose that two links $L_1, L_2\in \mathbb{S}^3$ are ...
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Computation of mod p homology of $MSU$
I am trying to proof Novikov theorem
\begin{equation}
MSU_*\otimes \mathbb Z[\frac 1 2] \cong \mathbb Z[\frac 1 2][y_2, y_4, \ldots],\quad \deg y_i = 2i.
\end{equation}
This can be proved by using ...
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Geometric intuition behind this chain homotopy
My question has to do with the chain homotopy that appears in Lee's Introduction to Topological Manifols and Rotman's Introduction to Algebraic Topology proofs that the inclusion
$$C_\bullet^\mathcal{...
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Tor functor and invertible elements
Let $A$ be a commutative ring, $a \subset A$ be an ideal. For $A$-module $M$ let $S \subset A$ be the set of elements, which are invertible in $M$, so $M$ is actually a $S^{-1}A$-module. It is not ...
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Easier ways to compute homology/cohomology by adding extra structure
Suppose $X$ is a topological space and I want to talk about its “homology”.
There is this notion of singular homology obtained from singular chain complex. This is not very easy to compute.
Suppose ...
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Homology of homotopy fiber of inclusion
We consider an inclusion $j: A \hookrightarrow X$. Let $A_j = A \times_X PX$ be the homotopy fiber (which is the fiber of the fibration associated to $j$). The space $PX$ there is the Moore path space ...
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Simply put Floer homology
I would like to understand what exactly Floer homology $HF_*(Y)$ for a simply connected compact 3-manifold $Y$ is. I understand there are many variants of Floer homology (and cohomology) but I would ...
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Cup product in Tate Cohomology Ring
Let $G$ be a finite cyclic group of order $p$. The tate cohomology groups $\hat{H}^*(G, \mathbb{F}_p)$ are defined using a complete resolution of $\mathbb{F}$ as $\mathbb{F}_pG$-module.
There is a ...
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Funtoriality of twisted K-theory
I posted this question on math.stackexchange, but received no answer there.
In order to avoid the XY problem I will first state what I want, then what I think is the solution and how that failed ...
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Vietoris-Rips complex and coarse geometry
Let $K$ be an infinite countable subset of Euclidean space $E$ such any point of $E$ is within distance 1 of some point of $K$. In the language of John Roe's "coarse geometry", this implies that $K$ ...
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Finite generation of group homology
I am reading 'Subgroups of direct products of limit groups' of Bridson, Howie, Miller and Short (http://annals.math.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/annals-v170-n3-p11-p.pdf) and I am finding similar ...
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Discrete Morse theory, choice of Morse function, and removing noise
If I have a simplicial complex, and a discrete Morse function defined on the simplices, I can use persistent homology to produce a barcode which helps me distinguish "persistent" shape from noise. To ...
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Naturality of Poincaré–Lefschetz
Let $X$ be compact and Hausdorff, $A\subseteq B\subseteq X$ both closed such that $X\setminus A$ is an open orientable $d$-manifold. Then also $X\setminus B$ is an open orientable $d$-manifold. We ...
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Finite generation of the image of the induced homomorphism on homotopy groups of infinite loops spaces
Let $f:X\rightarrow Y$ be a map of infinite loop spaces such that image of homology groups $H_i(X,\mathbb{Z})$ for $i\geq 1$ under $f_*$ are finitely generated. Does this imply that the image of ...
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Homology of solvable (nilpotent) Lie algebras
Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a solvable Lie algebra over $\mathbb{C}$ and $\lambda\in(\mathfrak{g}/[\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}])^*$ be a character of $\mathfrak{g}$. I'm interested in calculating homology for ...
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Do closed hypersurfaces separate the euclidean space?
The following extension of the Jordan Curve Theorem is well known: every closed connected hypersurface of the sphere $\mathbb S^N$ separates $S^N$ into exactly two connected components. As a ...
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Fibre transfer of $\mathbb{S}^1$-bundles
Let $p:E\to X$ and $p':E'\to X'$ be two orientable $\mathbb{S}^1$-bundles. Denote their homological transfers by $p_!:H_*(X)\to H_{*+1}(E)$ resp. $p'_!$.
Now let $(u,f)$ be a bundle morphism ($u:E\to ...
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Defining a graded ring structure on $\bigoplus_{i} \text{Ext}^i (A,A)$
I read that, using the fact that $\text{Tot}^{\prod}(\text{Hom}(P_{\bullet} ,Q_{\bullet}))$ can by used to compute $\text{Ext}^* (A,B)$ (which I understand), we can give $\bigoplus_{i} \text{Ext}^i (A,...
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Homology of universal abelian cover of a manifold
If one define the universal abelian covering $M_0$ of a manifold $M$ as the abelian covering (i.e. normal covering with abelian group of deck transformations) that covers any other abelian covering, ...
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Singular homology: Lifting simplices gives map in homology
Let $X$ be a space, $k=k_1+\dotsb+k_r$ and let $G:=\mathfrak{S}_{k_1}\times\dotsb\times \mathfrak{S}_{k_r}$ act freely on the right on $X$. Fix a commutative ring $R$ and another space $Y$.
Then the ...
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non zero differential in a spectral sequence
This is the situation:
Let $A = R_* \otimes C_*$ be an $R$-module where $C_*$ is a finitely generated graded ($*\geq 0$) vector space over a field $F$ which is also bounded above, and $R$ is a ...
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Alexander-Whitney for cyclic objects
What is known about the extension of the AW map from simplicial to cyclic Abelian groups? Homological perturbation theory implies there is an A infinity-like sequence of maps, but is it known ...
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Cohomology of a chain complex over a polynomial ring
I asked this on SE but I did not get any answer; I got some progress but I hope here I can find some help to finish the problem out.
Let $R = F[x_1, \ldots, x_n]$ be a polynomial ring over a field $...
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Is there a theorem showing that de Rham homology is isomorphic to singular homology?
The only exposition of de Rham homology I've found is an appendix to Uranga and Ibanezs book on String Phenomenology. It was brief and gave only basic outline of how to construct this homology.
Now ...
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Homology of SL(2,R) with finite coefficients
Consider the third homology group of a real special linear group
$H_3 (SL(2,\mathbb{R}),\mathbb{F}_p)$. It is known$[1]$ that for $p=2$ the third homology group of $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ vanishes.
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Topology of connected subsets of the $3$-torus
Consider the $3$-torus $Y=T^3$, a subset $\Sigma\subset Y$, and $\Sigma^*=Y\setminus\overline\Sigma$.
We assume both $\Sigma$ and $\Sigma^*$ to be open, connected, and smoothly bounded.
I am ...
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Spectra with “finite” homology and homotopy
As known, any non-trivial finite spectrum $X$ can not have non-zero homotopy groups $\pi_i(X)$ only for finite number of $i$. As I understand, the same is true for any spectrum $X$ with finitely ...
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Is there a knot invariant robust to hiding one part of the diagram behind another?
Is there a well-known knot invariant that can be computed solely by inspecting an arbitrary projection of the knot into the plane (with a marking of each crossing as "over" or "under")?
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Example of open manifold with no free integer homology non-homeomorphic to a ball
I would like to state that if an open oriented even-dimensional (complex) manifold $M$ is such that $dim(H_k(M,\mathbb{Z}))=0$ for $k>0$, and 1 for $k=0$, then $M$ is homeomorphic to an open ball.
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Reference request for Leibniz rule and spectral sequences
Suppose $A_*$,$B_*$, and $C_*$ are chain complexes equipped with filtrations and a map $m:A_* \otimes B_* \to C_*$ respecting these filtrations. I am looking for a reference for the fact that the map $...
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Classification of closed 3-manifolds with finite first homology group?
I am interested in a topological classification of connected closed 3-manifold $M$ that have finite homology group $H_1(M)$.
Since $H_1(M)$ is the abelization of the fundamental group $\pi_1(M)$, ...
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On spaces with finite homological dimension
Let $X$ be a connected $CW$-complex, such $\pi_1(X)$ is torsion-free and $H_k(X,\mathbb Z) = 0$ for all $k \geq N$ and some $N \in \mathbb N$. Then
$(1)$ Does it follow that $X$ is homotopy-...
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On the entries of a matrix representation for a boundary operator of a persistence module
In equation 6 of Computing Persistent Homology (page 8), the authors put forward the following identity:
$$\deg \hat{e_i}+\deg M_k (i,j)=\deg e_j$$
Where $\hat{e_i}$ and $e_j$ are elements of ...
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Homology spectral sequence for function space
The question is in the title. Suppose that $X$ and $Y$ are two pointed connected CW-complexes. I was wondering if there exists a spectral sequence computing the homology of the function space $$H_{\...
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Proof of $\det\partial_2^t∂_2 =m^2 ·k(G)$ for G, finite connected graph with reduced homology being 0
Let $G$ be a finite connected graph. Let $K$ be a 2-dimensional complex such that $K^{(1)} = G$, $\tilde{H}_2(K)=0$ and $\tilde{H}_1(K)=\Bbb Z_m$. Show that $\det\partial_2^t∂_2 =m^2 ·k(G).$
Over the ...
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Hochschild homology of a Hopf algebra
Let $A$ be a Hopf algebra over the complex numbers.
Denote by $\mathcal{M}$ the dg-category of dg-$A$-modules.
The Hochschild homology of $\mathcal{M}$ is not going to be the Hochschild homology of $A$...
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Eilenberg-Steenrod Axioms for Lawson Homology
Let $X\subset\mathbb{P}^N:=\mathbb{P}^N(\mathbb{C})$ be a projective variety and denote by $X(p)$ the set of $p$-dimensional subvariety of $X$. The free abelian group generated by $X(p)$ is the space ...
