Algebraic Topology

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Author(s): Solomon Lefschetz
Publisher: AMS
Year: 1942

Language: English

Title page
Preface
I. INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL TOPOLOGY
1. Primitive concepts
2. Topological spaces
3. Aggregates of sets. Coverings. Dimension
4. Connectedness
5. Compact spaces
6. Separation axioms
7. Inverse mapping systems
8. Metrization
9. Homotopy. Deformation. Retraction
II. ADDITIVE GROUPS
1. General properties
2. Generators of a group
3. Limit-groups
4. Group multiplication
5. Characters. Duality
6. Vector spaces
III. COMPLEXES
1. Complexes. Definitions and examples
2. Homology theory of finite complexes. (a) Generalities
3. Homology theory of finite complexes. (b) Integral groups
4. Homology theory of finite complexes. (c) Arbitrary groups of coefficients
5. Application to some special complexes
6. Duality theory for finite complexes
7. Linking coefficients. Duality in the sense of Alexander
8. Homology theory of infinite complexes
9. Augmentable and simple complexes
IV. COMPLEXES: PRODUCTS. TRANSFORMATIONS. SUBDIVISIONS
1. Products of complexes
2. Products of chains and cycles
3. Set-transformations
4. Chain-mappings
5. Chain-homotopy
6. Complements
7. Subdivision. Derivation. Partition
V. COMPLEXES: MULTIPLICATIONS AND INTERSECTIONS. FIXED ELEMENTS. MANIFOLDS
1. Multiplications
2. Intersections
3. Coincidences and fixed elements
4. Combinatorial manifolds
VI. NETS OF COMPLEXES
1. Definition of nets and their groups
2. Duality and intersections
3. Further properties of nets
4. Spectra
5. Application to infinite complexes
6. Webs
7. Metric complexes
VII. HOMOLOGY THEORY OF TOPOLOGICAL SPACES
1. Homology theory: foundations and general properties
2. Relations between connectedness and homology
3. Groups related to webs
4. Groups related to the union and intersection of two sets
5. The Vietoris homology theory for compacta
6. Reduction of the Vietoris theory to the Cech theory
7. Homology theories of Kurosch and Alexander-Kolmogorov
VIII. TOPOLOGY OF POLYHEDRA AND RELATED QUESTIONS
1. Geometrie complements
2. Homology theory
3. Geometrie manifolds
4. Continuous and singular complexes
5. Coincidences and fixed points
6. Quasi-complexes and the fixed point theorem
7. Topological complexes
8. Differentiable complexes and manifolds
9. Group manifolds
10. Nomenclature of complexes and manifolds
APPENDIX
A. On homology groups of infinite complexes and compacta. By Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders MacLane
B. Fixed points of periodic transformations. By P. A. Smith
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF SPECIAL SYMBOLS AND NOTATION
INDEX