An Introduction to Algebraic Topology: 119 (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 119)

Rotman, Joseph J.

ISBN 10: 0387966781 / ISBN 13: 9780387966786

Editore: Springer, 1988

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A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. Codice articolo GOR014246116

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Titolo: An Introduction to Algebraic Topology: 119 (...

Casa editrice: Springer

Data di pubblicazione: 1988

Legatura: Hardback

Condizione: Fair

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A clear exposition, with exercises, of the basic ideas of algebraic topology. Suitable for a two-semester course at the beginning graduate level, it assumes a knowledge of point set topology and basic algebra. Although categories and functors are introduced early in the text, excessive generality is avoided, and the author explains the geometric or analytic origins of abstract concepts as they are introduced.

Contenuti:

0 Introduction.- Notation.- Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem.- Categories and Functors.- 1.Some Basic Topological Notions.- Homotopy.- Convexity, Contractibility, and Cones.- Paths and Path Connectedness.- 2 Simplexes.- Affine Spaces.- Affine Maps.- 3 The Fundamental Group.- The Fundamental Groupoid.- The Functor ?1.- ?1(S1).- 4 Singular Homology.- Holes and Green’s Theorem.- Free Abelian Groups.- The Singular Complex and Homology Functors.- Dimension Axiom and Compact Supports.- The Homotopy Axiom.- The Hurewicz Theorem.- 5 Long Exact Sequences.- The Category Comp.- Exact Homology Sequences.- Reduced Homology.- 6 Excision and Applications.- Excision and Mayer-Vietoris.- Homology of Spheres and Some Applications.- Barycentric Subdivision and the Proof of Excision.- More Applications to Euclidean Space.- 7 Simplicial Complexes.- Definitions.- Simplicial Approximation.- Abstract Simplicial Complexes.- Simplicial Homology.- Comparison with Singular Homology.- Calculations.- Fundamental Groups of Polyhedra.- The Seifert-van Kampen Theorem.- 8 CW Complexes.- Hausdorff Quotient Spaces.- Attaching Cells.- Homology and Attaching Cells.- CW Complexes.- Cellular Homology.- 9 Natural Transformations.- Definitions and Examples.- Eilenberg-Steenrod Axioms.- Chain Equivalences.- Acyclic Models.- Lefschetz Fixed Point Theorem.- Tensor Products.- Universal Coefficients.- Eilenberg-Zilber Theorem and the Künneth Formula.- 10 Covering Spaces.- Basic Properties.- Covering Transformations.- Existence.- Orbit Spaces.- 11 Homotopy Groups.- Function Spaces.- Group Objects and Cogroup Objects.- Loop Space and Suspension.- Homotopy Groups.- Exact Sequences.- Fibrations.- A Glimpse Ahead.- 12 Cohomology.- Differential Forms.- Cohomology Groups.- Universal Coefficients Theorems for Cohomology.- Cohomology Rings.- Computations and Applications.- Notation.