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Simplicial Structures in Topology

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Contents<br />

I Fundamental Concepts ......................................... 1<br />

I.1 <strong>Topology</strong> ................................................. 1<br />

I.1.1 Topological Spaces ................................... 1<br />

I.1.2 Connectedness ...................................... 9<br />

I.1.3 Compactness ........................................ 16<br />

I.1.4 Function Spaces ..................................... 22<br />

I.1.5 Lebesgue Number ................................... 24<br />

I.2 Categories ................................................ 27<br />

I.2.1 General Ideas on Categories ........................... 27<br />

I.2.2 Pushouts ........................................... 33<br />

I.3 Group Actions ............................................. 39<br />

II The Category of <strong>Simplicial</strong> Complexes............................ 43<br />

II.1 Euclidean <strong>Simplicial</strong> Complexes .............................. 43<br />

II.2 Abstract <strong>Simplicial</strong> Complexes ............................... 46<br />

II.2.1 The Geometric Realization Functor ..................... 48<br />

II.2.2 <strong>Simplicial</strong> Complexes and Immersions .................. 56<br />

II.2.3 The Homology Functor ............................... 59<br />

II.3 Introduction to Homological Algebra .......................... 65<br />

II.4 <strong>Simplicial</strong> Homology ....................................... 75<br />

II.4.1 Reduced Homology .................................. 87<br />

II.5 Homology with Coefficients ................................. 88<br />

III Homology of Polyhedra ......................................... 99<br />

III.1 The Category of Polyhedra................................... 99<br />

III.2 Homology of Polyhedra .....................................108<br />

III.3 Some Applications .........................................117<br />

III.4 Relative Homology for Polyhedra .............................125<br />

III.5 Homology of Real Projective Spaces ..........................128<br />

III.5.1 Block Homology ....................................131<br />

III.5.2 Homology of RP n , with n ≥ 4 .........................138<br />

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