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Focus on precision and accuracy of your answers information. **Elapsed Time: 0.18 seconds** FINAL QUERY Final Query: CONTEXT: ########## File: Algebraic%20Topology%20AT-toc.pdf Page: 1 Context: # Algebraic Topology ## Allen Hatcher Copyright © 2001 by Allen Hatcher Paper or electronic copies for noncommercial use may be made freely without explicit permission from the author. All other rights reserved. Image Analysis: ### Analysis of Visual Content #### 1. Localization and Attribution - **Image 1**: - Position: This is the only image on the page, located centrally. #### 4. Text Analysis - **Image 1**: - **Detected Text**: - Title: "Algebraic Topology". - Author: "Allen Hatcher". - Copyright Notice: - "Copyright © 2001 by Allen Hatcher". - "Paper or electronic copies for noncommercial use may be made freely without explicit permission from the author. 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Some Underlying Geometric Notions 1. Homotopy and Homotopy Type 1. Cell Complexes 5 2. Operations on Spaces 8 3. Two Criteria for Homotopy Equivalence 10 4. The Homotopy Extension Property 14 ## Chapter 1. The Fundamental Group ### 1.1 Basic Constructions - Paths and Homotopy 25 - The Fundamental Group of the Circle 29 - Induced Homomorphisms 34 ### 1.2 Van Kampen’s Theorem - Free Products of Groups 41 - The van Kampen Theorem 43 - Applications to Cell Complexes 49 ### 1.3 Covering Spaces - Lifting Properties 60 - The Classification of Covering Spaces 63 - Deck Transformations and Group Actions 70 ## Additional Topics ### 1.A Graphs and Free Groups 83 ### 1.B KG(1) Spaces and Graphs of Groups 85 #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20AT-toc.pdf Page: 4 Context: # Chapter 2. Homology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 ## 2.1. Simplicial and Singular Homology . . . . . . . . . 102 - Δ-Complexes 102 - Simplicial Homology 104 - Singular Homology 108 - Homotopy Invariance 110 - Exact Sequences and Excision 113 - The Equivalence of Simplicial and Singular Homology 128 ## 2.2. Computations and Applications . . . . . . . . . . 134 - Degree 134 - Cellular Homology 137 - Mayer-Vietoris Sequences 149 - Homology with Coefficients 153 ## 2.3. The Formal Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 - Axioms for Homology 160 - Categories and Functors 162 ### Additional Topics - **2.A**. Homology and Fundamental Group 166 - **2.B**. Classical Applications 169 - **2.C**. Simplicial Approximation 177 # Chapter 3. Cohomology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 ## 3.1. Cohomology Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 - The Universal Coefficient Theorem 190 - Cohomology of Spaces 197 ## 3.2. Cup Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 - The Cohomology Ring 212 - A Künneth Formula 214 - Spaces with Polynomial Cohomology 220 ## 3.3. Poincaré Duality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 - Orientations and Homology 233 - The Duality Theorem 239 - Connection with Cup Product 249 - Other Forms of Duality 252 ### Additional Topics - **3.A**. Coefficients for Homology 261 - **3.B**. The General Künneth Formula 268 - **3.C**. H-Spaces and Hopf Algebras 281 - **3.D**. The Cohomology of \( S^0(n) \) 292 - **3.E**. Bockstein Homomorphisms 321 - **3.F**. Limits and Ext 311 - **3.G**. Local Coefficients 327 #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20AT-toc.pdf Page: 5 Context: # Chapter 4. Homotopy Theory ## 4.1. Homotopy Groups - Definitions and Basic Constructions 340. - Whitehead’s Theorem 346. - Cellular Approximation 348. - CW Approximation 352. ## 4.2. Elementary Methods of Calculation - Excision for Homotopy Groups 360. - The Hurewicz Theorem 366. - Fiber Bundles 375. - Stable Homotopy Groups 384. ## 4.3. Connections with Cohomology - The Homotopy Construction of Cohomology 393. - Fibrations 405. - Postnikov Towers 410. - Obstruction Theory 415. # Additional Topics ### 4.A. Basepoints and Homotopy 421. ### 4.B. The Hopf Invariant 427. ### 4.C. Minimal Cell Structures 429. ### 4.D. Cohomology of Fiber Bundles 431. ### 4.E. The Brown Representability Theorem 448. ### 4.F. Spectra and Homology Theories 452. ### 4.G. Gluing Constructions 456. ### 4.H. Eckmann-Hilton Duality 460. ### 4.I. Stable Splittings of Spaces 466. ### 4.J. The Loopspace of a Suspension 470. ### 4.K. The Dold-Thom Theorem 475. ### 4.L. Steenrod Squares and Powers 487. # Appendix - Topology of Cell Complexes 519. - The Compact-Open Topology 529. - The Homotopy Extension Property 533. - Simplicial CW Structures 534. # Bibliography # Index #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20AT-toc.pdf Page: 6 Context: # Preface This book was written to be a readable introduction to algebraic topology with rather broad coverage of the subject. The viewpoint is quite classical in spirit, and stays well within the confines of pure algebraic topology. In a sense, the book could have been written thirty or forty years ago since virtually everything in it is at least that old. However, the passage of the intervening years has helped clarify what are the most important results and techniques. For example, CW complexes have proved over time to be the most natural class of spaces for algebraic topology, so they are emphasized here much more than in the books of an earlier generation. This emphasis also illustrates the book's general slant towards geometric, rather than algebraic, aspects of the subject. The geometry of algebraic topology is so pretty, it would seem a pity to slight it and to miss all the intuition it provides. At the elementary level, algebraic topology separates naturally into the two broad channels of homology and homotopy. This material is here divided into four chapters, roughly according to increasing sophistication, with homotopy split between Chapters 1 and 4, and homology and its mirror variant cohomology in Chapters 2 and 3. These four chapters do not have to be read in this order, however. One could begin with homology and perhaps continue with cohomology before turning to homotopy. In the other direction, one could postpone homology and cohomology until after parts of Chapter 4. If this latter strategy is pushed to its natural limit, homology and cohomology can be developed just as branches of homotopy theory. Appealing as this approach is from a strictly logical point of view, it places more demands on the reader, and since readability is one of the first priorities of the book, this homotopic interpretation of homology and cohomology is described only after the latter theories have been developed independently of homotopy theory. Preceding the four main chapters there is a preliminary Chapter 0 introducing some of the basic geometric concepts and constructions that play a central role in both the homological and homotopical sides of the subject. This can either be read before the other chapters or skipped and referred back to later for specific topics as they become needed in the subsequent chapters. Each of the four main chapters concludes with a selection of additional topics that the reader can sample at will, independent of the basic core of the book contained in the earlier parts of the chapters. Many of these extra topics are in fact rather important in the overall scheme of algebraic topology, though they might not fit into the time #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20AT-toc.pdf Page: 7 Context: # Preface The additional topics amount to nearly half the book, and they are included here both to make the book more comprehensive and to give the reader who takes the time to dive into them a more substantial sample of the true richness and beauty of the subject. There is also an Appendix dealing mainly with a number of matters of a point-set topological nature that arise in algebraic topology. Since this is a textbook on algebraic topology, details involving point-set topology are often treated lightly or skipped entirely in the body of the text. Not included in this book is the important but somewhat more sophisticated topic of spectral sequences. It was very tempting to include something about this marvelous tool here, but spectral sequences are such a big topic that it seemed best to start with them afresh in a new volume. This is tentatively titled *Spectral Sequences in Algebraic Topology* and is referred to herein as [SSAT]. There is also a third book in progress, on vector bundles, characteristic classes, and K-theory, which will be largely independent of [SSAT] and of much of the present book. This is referred to as [VBKT], its provisional title being *Vector Bundles and K-Theory*. In terms of prerequisites, the present book assumes the reader has some familiarity with the content of the standard undergraduate courses in algebra and point-set topology. In particular, the reader should know about quotient spaces, or identification spaces as they are sometimes called, which are quite important for algebraic topology. Good sources for this concept are the textbooks [Armstrong 1983] and [Jänich 1984] listed in the Bibliography. A book such as this one, whose aim is to present classical material from a rather classical viewpoint, is not the place to indulge in wild innovation. There is, however, one small novelty in the exposition that may be worth commenting upon, even though one might say that it plays a relatively minor role. This is the use of what we call Δ-complexes, which are a mild generalization of the classical notion of a simplicial complex. The idea is to decompose a space into simplices allowing different faces of a simplex to coincide and dropping the requirement that simplices are uniquely determined by their vertices. For example, if one takes the standard picture of the torus as a square with opposite edges identified and divides the square into two triangles by cutting along a diagonal, then the result is a Δ-complex structure on the torus having 2 triangles, 3 edges, and 1 vertex. By contrast, a simplicial complex structure on the torus must have at least 14 triangles, 21 edges, and 7 vertices. So Δ-complexes provide a significant improvement in efficiency, which is nice from a pedagogical viewpoint since it simplifies calculations in examples. A more fundamental reason for considering Δ-complexes is that they seem to be very natural objects from the viewpoint of algebraic topology. They are the natural domain of definition for simplicial homology, and a number of standard constructions produce Δ-complexes rather than simplicial complexes. Historically, Δ-complexes were first introduced by ########## """QUERY: THE ANSWER: This book is a comprehensive introduction to algebraic topology, a field of mathematics. It covers both homology and homotopy, with a focus on geometric aspects. The book is organized into five chapters: Chapter 0 introduces basic geometric concepts, Chapters 1 and 4 cover homotopy, Chapters 2 and 3 cover homology and cohomology. 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