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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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What is a cohomology theory (seriously)?
This question has bugged me for a long time. Is there a unifying concept behind everything that is called a "cohomology theory"?
I know that there exist generalized cohomology theories, Weil ...
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