A refinement of Betti numbers and homology in the presence of a continuous function. I
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A refinement of Betti numbers and homology in the presence of a continuous function. I
zbMATH Open document ID: 1378.55003
author: Dan Burghelea
published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology
publication date: 2017-08-21T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01012
review text: This paper describes how, given a continuous real-valued function on a compact ANR \(X\), one can get a refinement of the Betti numbers and homology of \(X\). The refinement creates a configuration of points in complex space, whose total cardinalities are the Betti numbers. The refinement of the homology consists of a set of vector spaces indexed by points in the complex plane with the same support as that of the point configuration. The direct sum of these vector spaces is the homology of \(X\). The author calls the system \((H_{r}(X), P_{r}^{f}(z), \hat{\delta}_{r}^{f})\), where \(P_{r}^{f}\) is a polynomial with zeros at the configuration points and \(\hat{\delta}_{r}^{f}\) an associated vector space, the \(r\)-homology spectral package of \((X,f)\). The points \((a,b)\) in the configuration arise by considering boxes of the form \((a', a] \times [b,b')\) and comparing the homology of the sub levels \(X_{a} = f^{-1}((-\infty , a])\) for \(a\) and \(a'\) and the homology of the super levels \(X^{b} = f^{-1}([b,+\infty))\) for \(b\) and \(b'\) to isolate the points where the homology of the levels changes. The author proves results on the stability of these spectral packages under changes in the function \(f\). A Poincaré duality result is shown for the case where \(X\) is a closed smooth manifold.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 55N35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46M20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R19
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54C30
zbMATH DE Number: 6762685
zbMATH Keywords: Betti numbers
zbMATH Keywords: homology
zbMATH Keywords: bar codes
zbMATH Keywords: configurations
zbMATH Keywords: ANR
reviewed by: Jonathan Hodgson
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W3123606545
arXiv ID: 1501.01012
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DOI: 10.2140/AGT.2017.17.2051
description: scientific article