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    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2012

    I added to Tim’s stub on cellular homology. Still a bit rough around the edges perhaps. An example (say real projective space) would also be nice.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 22nd 2012
    • (edited Oct 22nd 2012)

    I have touched cellular homology a little: added hyperlinks, subsections, numbered environments. Pointed to it from homology and relative homology, etc. Added a brief pointer to the coresponding spectral sequence. Wanted to do more, but maybe not right now.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 24th 2012
    • (edited Oct 24th 2012)

    I have further edited at cellular homology a little:

    • for definitess and in order to establish the notation needed later, I have recalled the full definition of a CW-complex right at the beginning;

    • I have tried to consistently label cellular structure by “CW”-superscripts, hence “H • CW(X)H^{CW}_\bullet(X)” for cellular homology and “∂ n CW\partial^{CW}_n” for the cellular boundary map, as opposed to the plain singular boundary map denoted “∂ n\partial_n”.

    Where a proposition says that (∂ CW) 2=0(\partial^{CW})^2 = 0 I have now added as proof the remark that on representing singular chains this is just (∂) 2(\partial)^2.

    Where a proposition asserts that the cellular nn-chains are free on the nn-cells, I have added a pointer to relative homology where there is by now a proof of this fact.

    Next I will spell out the proof of H • CW(X)≃H •(X)H^{CW}_\bullet(X) \simeq H_\bullet(X), via the spectral sequence of the filtered singular chain complex.

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    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTimeOct 24th 2012

    Just a quick remark that the isomorphism between cellular homology and singular homology can be proved directly in a hands-on way, without having to invoke the machinery of spectral sequences.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 24th 2012

    Yes, I know, the entry is already pointing to the elementary proof in Hatcher’s book, for instance.

    But I want to use it the other way round: to motivate/explain spectral sequences.

    I think the best way to think of spectral sequences is as a computation in relative/cellular homology where we consider not just boundaries/cycles relative to the next filtering layer, but also to the higher ones. An exposition along these lines is what I am trying to write up here.

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    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTimeOct 24th 2012

    That’s a good idea! (I guess you’re still teaching your course?)

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 24th 2012
    • (edited Oct 24th 2012)

    Yup. I am preparing the next session.

    I have 90 minutes and can’t assume background on CW-complexes. So I won’t get too far. But my plan is to introduce cellular homology at least in plausible outline. Then highlight the remark that cellular homologies are relative cycles modulo one step in the filtering. Then say: “let’s more generally consider relative cycles modulo rr steps in the filtering”. Then say that this is called the “spectral sequence of a filtered complex”. Then highlight the single important but evident fact, that (r+1)(r+1)-relative cycles are the homology of rr-relative cycles. Claim that this is hugely useful in computations as soon as one knows that the r>qr \gt q-relative boundaries all vanish and finally illustrate with with cellular ≃\simeq singular.

    I won’t have time to really discuss any other application, but since it’s just an introductory course and since I am being told that discussing spectral sequences at all in this course is a bit of an unusal idea anyway, I think that’s fine. And also, there is not more to spectral sequences really. That’s all it is, higher order relative homology theory. So I tend to think of this as a good plan. But all comments are welcome.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 30th 2012
    • (edited Oct 30th 2012)

    at cellular homology – Relation to spectral sequence of the filtered singular complex the spectral-sequence proof of H •(X)≃H • CW(X)H_\bullet(X) \simeq H^{CW}_\bullet(X) had ended with the words

    Finally observe that G pH p(X)≃H p(X)G_p H_p(X) \simeq H_p(X).

    This is true, but maybe deserves a tad of discussion. To supply that, I have now expanded at CW complex – Relation to singular homology the statement and proof of the last proposition there, and pointed to it from that proof of cellular homology in order to show how that proposition indeed implies the above quote.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2020

    added pointer to

    diff, v14, current

  10. typo

    Anonymous

    diff, v18, current

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJul 13th 2024

    added pointer to:

    diff, v19, current

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