Homology Classes of Semi-Algebraic Sets and Mass Minimization

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2016.65.5771zbMATH Open1345.49054arXiv1404.4796OpenAlexW2963765042MaRDI QIDQ3178599FDOQ3178599

Quentin Funk

Publication date: 14 July 2016

Published in: Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We associate to any compact semi-algebraic set $Xsubsetmathbb{R}^n$ a chain complex of currents $S_{a}st(X)$ generated by integration along semi-algebraic submanifolds and we analyze the corresponding homology groups. In particular, we show that these homology groups satisfy the Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms and further, that they are isomorphic to both the ordinary singular homology groups of $X$ and to the homology groups generated by the integral currents supported on $X$. Using this result and a certain neighborhood of $X$, we are able to prove homological mass minimization for integral currents supported on $X$, and verify that any cycle of $X$ that has sufficiently small mass is a boundary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4796

zbMATH Keywords

semi-algebraic setssingular homologyintegral currentsmass minimizationsemi-algebraic chains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other homology theories in algebraic topology (55N35) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Semialgebraic sets and related spaces (14P10) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15)

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• Hyperplane mass partitions via relative equivariant obstruction theory
• Linear isoperimetric inequality for normal and integral currents in compact subanalytic sets
• Some basic theorems on flat \(G\) chains
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