Lecture notes in algebraic topology
This book is based on the lecture notes of the authors' courses at Indiana University. It targets readers with a previous exposure to basic algebraic topology notions like the fundamental group, singular (co)homology, and CW complexes. By its declared purpose, it aims to cover ``what every young topologist should know in a self-contained, easy to read and reasonably short volume. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn order to achieve their goal, the authors decided to separate the technical difficulties from the underlying ideas. Their main technical tool is a spectral sequence converging to an additive homology theory (e.g., singular homology, K-theory, framed bordism) of the total space of a fibration, obtained by combining the Leray-Serre and the Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequences. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe first four chapters cover the basic constructions of singular and cellular (co)homology, homological algebra, cohomology products and fiber bundles. Chapter 5 introduces homology with local coefficients. Chapter 6 is one of the main parts of the book. Here the authors introduce compactly generated spaces, (co)fibrations, loop spaces and homotopy groups. The Hurewicz comparison theorem between homotopy and homology groups is stated here but proved later using spectral sequences. Chapter 7 covers obstruction theory and Eilenberg-MacLane spaces. Chapter 8 treats bordism, classifying spaces, spectra and generalized homology theories. Chapter 9 forms the technical core of the book, through the Leray-Serre-Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence. It is perhaps unfortunate that the construction of this spectral sequence is not explicitly given, however the reader is referred to \textit{G. W. Whitehead} [Elements of homotopy theory; Graduate Texts in Mathematics 61, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York (1978; Zbl 0406.55001)]. Another good reference for spectral sequences is \textit{R. Bott} and \textit{L. Tu} [Differential forms in algebraic topology; Graduate Texts in Mathematics 82, Springer-Verlag, New York-Heidelberg-Berlin (1982; Zbl 0496.55001)]. Here and in Chapter 10, this spectral sequence gives effortless proofs for the Hurewicz theorem, the Freudenthal suspension theorem and allows several computations of homology and homotopy groups. It also leads to cohomology operations. The book concludes with a chapter on simple-homotopy theory, including Reidemeister torsion, algebraic \(K\)-theory and \(s\)-cobordism. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe book contains more than two hundred exercises scattered throughout the text (as part of the authors' strategy to avoid technicalities, sometimes proofs of theorems are proposed as exercises). In addition, each chapter ends with several ``Projects; when the book is used as a textbook, the projects could serve as topics for students' presentations. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe book is very carefully written. The style is alert, sometimes informal, and highly readable. Through their use of modern notation the authors manage to avoid intimidating commutative diagrams without compromising on rigor. In our view, this book represents a valuable addition to the literature which should be useful both to students and as a reference for working mathematicians.
- Dynamics of twisted Alexander invariants
- The FKMM-invariant in low dimension
- S-folds and 4d \( \mathcal{N} =3\) superconformal field theories
- Cancellations for circle-valued Morse functions via spectral sequences
- On smooth manifolds with the homotopy type of a homology sphere
- Diagrams for relative trisections
- The \(L\)-homology fundamental class for IP-spaces and the stratified Novikov conjecture
- The cohomological nature of the Fu-Kane-Mele invariant
- Borsuk-Ulam theorems and their parametrized versions for \(\mathbb {F}P^m\times \mathbb {S}^3\)
- The Euler characteristic of local systems on the moduli of genus 3 hyperelliptic curves
- Chiral vector bundles
- Codimension two transcendental submanifolds of projective space
- New higher anomalies, SU(N) Yang-Mills gauge theory and \(\mathbb{CP}^{\operatorname{N}-1}\) sigma model
- Strongly automorphic mappings and Julia sets of uniformly quasiregular mappings
- The homotopy groups of the automorphism groups of Cuntz-Toeplitz algebras
- Stabilization distance between surfaces
- A counting invariant for maps into spheres and for zero loci of sections of vector bundles
- Poly-\(\mathbb{Z}\) group actions on Kirchberg algebras. II
- Geometric cycles and characteristic classes of manifold bundles (with an appendix by M. Krannich)
- A topological invariant for continuous fields of Cuntz algebras
- A weak homotopy equivalence type result related to Kirchberg algebras
- Khovanov homotopy type, periodic links and localizations
- Torus actions, maximality, and non-negative curvature
- More bisections by hyperplane arrangements
- Global anomalies in 8d supergravity
- A formula for \(p\)-completion by way of the Segal conjecture
- On the topological complexity of manifolds with abelian fundamental group
- Third homology of perfect central extensions
- Homotopy ribbon concordance and Alexander polynomials
- Topological classification of Lagrangian fibrations
- Commutative cocycles and stable bundles over surfaces
- IIB flux non-commutativity and the global structure of field theories
- Obstruction class for the existence of a conformal spin structure in a strict sense
- Toward a spectral theory of cellular sheaves
- Indices of a finitistic space with \(\bmod 2\) cohomology \(\mathbb{R} P^n \times \mathbb{S}^2\)
- Homotopy groups of generic leaves of logarithmic foliations
- Classification of ``quaternionic Bloch-bundles: topological quantum systems of type AII
- Characterization of a topological obstruction to reach control by continuous state feedback
- Lectures on cyclic homology. Notes by R. Sujatha
- Continuity properties of measurable group cohomology
- Fibrations with noncommutative fibers
- Universal Lagrangian bundles
- Fluxes, bundle gerbes and 2-Hilbert spaces
- Relative gerbes
- Some examples of vanishing Yamabe invariant and minimal volume, and collapsing of inequivalent smoothings and PL-structures
- General perversities and \(L^2\) de Rham and Hodge theorems for stratified pseudomanifolds
- Using equivariant obstruction theory in combinatorial geometry
- On spin structures and orientations for gauge-theoretic moduli spaces
- Geography of 4-manifolds with positive scalar curvature
- Unitary equivalence of normal matrices over topological spaces
- Differential geometric invariants for time-reversal symmetric Bloch-bundles: the ``Real case
- Smooth structures on a fake real projective space
- Homological stability for symmetric complements
- Basic algebraic topology
- Cheeger-Chern-Simons theory and differential string classes
- Minimalist approach to the classification of symmetry protected topological phases
- FREE ACTION OF FINITE GROUPS ON SPACES OF COHOMOLOGY TYPE (0, b)
- Black holes, information, and the universal coefficient theorem
- The homotopy Leray spectral sequence
- Chow-Witt rings of split quadrics
- Lectures on algebraic topology
- Multivariable Alexander invariants of hypersurface complements
- Classifying seven dimensional manifolds of fixed cohomology type
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4170855 (Why is no real title available?)
- The Euler characteristic of local systems on the moduli of curves and abelian varieties of genus three
- Topological triviality of smoothly knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds
- Spectral sequences in Conley's theory
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3903545 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3923668 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4071907 (Why is no real title available?)
- On non-immersibility of \(\mathbb RP^{10}\) to \(\mathbb R^{15}\)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 52406 (Why is no real title available?)
- Survey article: an elementary illustrated introduction to simplicial sets
- Von Neumann rho invariants and torsion in the topological knot concordance group
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1565334 (Why is no real title available?)
- Free immersions and panelled web 4-manifolds
- Nonexistence of smooth effective one fixed point actions of finite Oliver groups on low-dimensional spheres
- Classification of ``real Bloch-bundles: topological quantum systems of type AI
- Acyclic embeddings of open Riemann surfaces into new examples of elliptic manifolds
- Global rigidity of higher rank Anosov actions on tori and nilmanifolds
- Two closed orbits for non-degenerate Reeb flows
- Classifying spaces and Bredon (co)homology for transitive groupoids
- Splitting of collapsing maps for free abelian topological groups
- Complements to ample divisors and singularities
- A topological invariant for continuous fields of Cuntz algebras. II
- Average-value Tverberg partitions via finite Fourier analysis
- A DISCRETE ANALOG OF DE RHAM COHOMOLOGY ON FINITE ABELIAN GROUPS AS MANIFOLDS
- On macroscopic dimension of non-spin 4-manifolds
- Principal bundles on two-dimensional CW-complexes with disconnected structure group
- The homomorphism defect of an extended Levine-Tristram signature via twisted homology
- Concordance, Crossing Changes, and Knots in Homology Spheres
- Classification of first order sesquilinear forms
- When is the underlying space of an orbifold a manifold?
- Burau maps and twisted Alexander polynomials
- The functor of singular chains detects weak homotopy equivalences
- A Borsuk-Ulam type theorem for the product of a projective space and 3-sphere
- Lectures on the Topological Vertex
- A spectral sequence for theK-theory of tiling spaces
- Analytic definition of spin structure
- Modular symbols for Fermat curves
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