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Poincare duality spaces vs. manifolds via lifting maps, the obstruction theory and the role ...

Suppose that we are given a topological space $X$: assume for simplicity that $X$ is compact we want to adress the following question: Is it true that one can find a manifold $M$ which is homotop …
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Sober spaces vs. spatial frames-a big picture

For any topological space $X$ one can consider the so called frame of all open subsets of $X$ to be denoted by $\mathcal{O}(X)$. If $f:X \to Y$ is continuous taking the inverse image we get the morphi …
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Atiyah-Singer theorem-a big picture

So far I made several attempts to really learn Atiyah-Singer theorem. In order to really understand this result a rather broad background is required: you need to know analysis (pseudodifferential op …
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