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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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When do submanifolds lie in the same homology class?

So the very simple answer is that $S$ and $S'$ are the same homology class if and only if they are the boundary of some sum of singular simplices. …
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Ordinal-indexed homology theory?

Does there exist a good homology theory $H_{\alpha}(X)$ where $\alpha$ is an ordinal? …
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Homology of Covering Spaces

This is not a trivial problem. A favorite example of mine is the case of a knot complement, $S^3\setminus K$. (It is known that these are Eilenberg-Maclane spaces.) If you pick $A$ to be the commutato …
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