In mathematics, specifically algebraic topology, an Eilenberg–MacLane space is a topological space with a single nontrivial homotopy group. Let G be a...
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algebraic topology, there is a distinguished class of spectra called Eilenberg–MacLane spectra H A {\displaystyle HA} for any abelian group A {\displaystyle...
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Samuel Eilenberg (September 30, 1913 – January 30, 1998) was a Polish-American mathematician who co-founded category theory (with Saunders Mac Lane) and...
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CW complexes. Cohomology of CW complexes is representable by an Eilenberg–MacLane space, so by the Yoneda lemma a cohomology operation of type ( n , q...
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Samuel Eilenberg. Mac Lane was born in Norwich, Connecticut, near where his family lived in Taftville. He was christened "Leslie Saunders MacLane", but...
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Cohomology (section Eilenberg–MacLane spaces)
Such a space is called an Eilenberg–MacLane space. This space has the remarkable property that it is a classifying space for cohomology: there is a natural...
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X are trivial; that is, BG is an Eilenberg–MacLane space, specifically a K(G, 1). An example of a classifying space for the infinite cyclic group G is...
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_{n}(\mathbf {R} ^{2})} are Eilenberg–MacLane spaces of type K ( π , 1 ) {\displaystyle K(\pi ,1)} , that the unordered configuration space of the plane UConf...
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Eilenberg (1848–1927), German composer Eilenberg–MacLane space Eilenberg–Moore algebra Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms Eilenberg machine Eilenburg Eulenberg (disambiguation)...
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Homotopy category (redirect from Homotopy category of topological spaces)
A and natural number i, there is a CW complex K(A,i) called an Eilenberg–MacLane space and a cohomology class u in Hi(K(A,i),A) such that the resulting...
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group G has cohomological dimension 2, then it has a 2-dimensional Eilenberg–MacLane space K ( G , 1 ) {\displaystyle K(G,1)} . For n different from 2, a...
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mathematics, Moore space is the name given to a particular type of topological space that is the homology analogue of the Eilenberg–Maclane spaces of homotopy...
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singular cohomology of a suitable space having G as its fundamental group, namely the corresponding Eilenberg–MacLane space. Thus, the group cohomology of...
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analytic space Drinfeld's symmetric space Eilenberg–Mac Lane space Euclidean space Fiber space Finsler space First-countable space Fréchet space Function...
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alternative point of view can be based on representing cohomology via Eilenberg–MacLane space, where the map h {\displaystyle h} takes a homotopy class of maps...
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{\displaystyle H^{n}(X,G)} of the space X. One says that the omega-spectrum of Eilenberg-MacLane spaces are representing spaces for singular cohomology with...
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if and only if B is aspherical.) Each aspherical space X is, by definition, an Eilenberg–MacLane space of type K ( G , 1 ) {\displaystyle K(G,1)} , where...
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{\displaystyle \phi _{n}:X_{n}\to X_{n-1}} that are fibrations with fibers Eilenberg-MacLane spaces K ( π n ( X ) , n ) {\displaystyle K(\pi _{n}(X),n)} . In short...
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Brown's representability theorem (redirect from Representing space)
representing space for F is the Eilenberg–MacLane space K(A, i). This gives a means of showing the existence of Eilenberg-MacLane spaces. Since the homotopy...
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k − 1 {\displaystyle S^{k}=\Sigma S^{k-1}} . Bott periodicity Eilenberg–MacLane space Free loop Fundamental group Gray's conjecture List of topologies...
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with Eilenberg–MacLane spaces can be applied to any Lie group G, giving the string group String(G). The relevance of the Eilenberg-Maclane space K ( Z...
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particularly valuable when dealing with spaces with intricate topological features, such as the Eilenberg-MacLane space. An ordinary category has objects and...
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rationally, i.e. after localisation of a space, H P ∞ {\displaystyle \mathbb {HP} ^{\infty }} is an Eilenberg–Maclane space K ( Q , 4 ) {\displaystyle K(\mathbb...
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_{1}(S^{1})} hence C P ∞ {\displaystyle \mathbf {CP} ^{\infty }} is an Eilenberg–MacLane space, a K ( Z , 2 ) {\displaystyle K(\mathbb {Z} ,2)} . Because of this...
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}} , which is contractible. The infinite projective space is therefore the Eilenberg–MacLane space K(Z2, 1). For each nonnegative integer q, the modulo...
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Torus (section Configuration space)
^{n})=\operatorname {GL} (n,\mathbf {Z} ).} Since the torus is an Eilenberg–MacLane space K(G, 1), its homotopy equivalences, up to homotopy, can be identified...
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sum Smash product Adjunction space Cohomotopy Cohomotopy group Brown's representability theorem Eilenberg–MacLane space Fibre bundle Möbius strip Line...
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Homology sphere (redirect from Poincaré dodecahedral space)
originally given by Galewski and Stern is not triangulable. Eilenberg–MacLane space Moore space (algebraic topology) "Is the universe a dodecahedron?", article...
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topological space. The Hopf–Whitney theorem produces a weaker result because the fact that the higher homotopy groups of an Eilenberg–MacLane space also vanish...
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group, or more precisely in the homology of the corresponding Eilenberg–MacLane space. Here the fundamental class is taken in homology with integer coefficients...
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