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Adams–Novikov Spectral Sequence
In mathematics, the Adams spectral sequence is a spectral sequence introduced by which computes the stable homotopy groups of topological spaces. Like all spectral sequences, it is a computational tool; it relates homology theory to what is now called stable homotopy theory. It is a reformulation using homological algebra, and an extension, of a technique called 'killing homotopy groups' applied by the French school of Henri Cartan and Jean-Pierre Serre. Motivation For everything below, once and for all, we fix a prime ''p''. All spaces are assumed to be CW complexes. The ordinary cohomology groups H^*(X) are understood to mean H^*(X; \Z/p\Z). The primary goal of algebraic topology is to try to understand the collection of all maps, up to homotopy, between arbitrary spaces ''X'' and ''Y''. This is extraordinarily ambitious: in particular, when ''X'' is S^n, these maps form the ''n''th homotopy group of ''Y''. A more reasonable (but still very difficult!) goal is to understand t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many areas of mathematics, which include number theory (the study of numbers), algebra (the study of formulas and related structures), geometry (the study of shapes and spaces that contain them), Mathematical analysis, analysis (the study of continuous changes), and set theory (presently used as a foundation for all mathematics). Mathematics involves the description and manipulation of mathematical object, abstract objects that consist of either abstraction (mathematics), abstractions from nature orin modern mathematicspurely abstract entities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. Mathematics uses pure reason to proof (mathematics), prove properties of objects, a ''proof'' consisting of a succession of applications of in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Module (mathematics)
In mathematics, a module is a generalization of the notion of vector space in which the field of scalars is replaced by a (not necessarily commutative) ring. The concept of a ''module'' also generalizes the notion of an abelian group, since the abelian groups are exactly the modules over the ring of integers. Like a vector space, a module is an additive abelian group, and scalar multiplication is distributive over the operations of addition between elements of the ring or module and is compatible with the ring multiplication. Modules are very closely related to the representation theory of groups. They are also one of the central notions of commutative algebra and homological algebra, and are used widely in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology. Introduction and definition Motivation In a vector space, the set of scalars is a field and acts on the vectors by scalar multiplication, subject to certain axioms such as the distributive law. In a module, the scal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Milnor
John Willard Milnor (born February 20, 1931) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and the only mathematician to have won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize, the Abel Prize and all three Steele prizes. Early life and career Milnor was born on February 20, 1931, in Orange, New Jersey. His father was J. Willard Milnor, an engineer, and his mother was Emily Cox Milnor. As an undergraduate at Princeton University he was named a Putnam Fellow in 1949 and 1950 and also proved the Fáry–Milnor theorem when he was only 19 years old. Milnor graduated with an A.B. in mathematics in 1951 after completing a senior thesis, titled "Link groups", under the supervision of Ralph Fox. He remained at Princeton to pursue graduate studies and received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1954 after completing a doctoral dissertation, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thom Space
In mathematics, the Thom space, Thom complex, or Pontryagin–Thom construction (named after René Thom and Lev Pontryagin) of algebraic topology and differential topology is a topological space associated to a vector bundle, over any paracompact space. Construction of the Thom space One way to construct this space is as follows. Let :p\colon E \to B be a rank ''n'' real vector bundle over the paracompact space ''B''. Then for each point ''b'' in ''B'', the fiber E_b is an ''n''-dimensional real vector space. We can form an ''n''-sphere bundle \operatorname(E) \to B by taking the one-point compactification of each fiber and gluing them together to get the total space. Finally, from the total space \operatorname(E) we obtain the Thom space T(E) as the quotient of \operatorname(E) by ''B''; that is, by identifying all the new points to a single point \infty, which we take as the basepoint of T(E). If ''B'' is compact, then T(E) is the one-point compactification of ''E''. For ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K-theory
In mathematics, K-theory is, roughly speaking, the study of a ring generated by vector bundles over a topological space or scheme. In algebraic topology, it is a cohomology theory known as topological K-theory. In algebra and algebraic geometry, it is referred to as algebraic K-theory. It is also a fundamental tool in the field of operator algebras. It can be seen as the study of certain kinds of invariants of large matrices. K-theory involves the construction of families of ''K''-functors that map from topological spaces or schemes, or to be even more general: any object of a homotopy category to associated rings; these rings reflect some aspects of the structure of the original spaces or schemes. As with functors to groups in algebraic topology, the reason for this functorial mapping is that it is easier to compute some topological properties from the mapped rings than from the original spaces or schemes. Examples of results gleaned from the K-theory approach include the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hopf Invariant
In mathematics, in particular in algebraic topology, the Hopf invariant is a homotopy invariant of certain maps between ''n''-spheres. __TOC__ Motivation In 1931 Heinz Hopf used Clifford parallels to construct the '' Hopf map'' :\eta\colon S^3 \to S^2, and proved that \eta is essential, i.e., not homotopic to the constant map, by using the fact that the linking number of the circles :\eta^(x),\eta^(y) \subset S^3 is equal to 1, for any x \neq y \in S^2. It was later shown that the homotopy group \pi_3(S^2) is the infinite cyclic group generated by \eta. In 1951, Jean-Pierre Serre proved that the rational homotopy groups :\pi_i(S^n) \otimes \mathbb for an odd-dimensional sphere (n odd) are zero unless i is equal to 0 or ''n''. However, for an even-dimensional sphere (''n'' even), there is one more bit of infinite cyclic homotopy in degree 2n-1. Definition Let \varphi \colon S^ \to S^n be a continuous map (assume n>1). Then we can form the cell complex : C_\varphi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eilenberg–Maclane Spectrum
In mathematics, specifically algebraic topology, there is a distinguished class of spectra called Eilenberg–MacLane spectra HA for any abelian group Apg 134. Note, this construction can be generalized to commutative rings R as well from its underlying abelian group. These are an important class of spectra because they model ordinary integral cohomology and cohomology with coefficients in an abelian group. In addition, they are a lift of the homological structure in the derived category D(\mathbb) of abelian groups in the homotopy category of spectra. In addition, these spectra can be used to construct resolutions of spectra, called Adams resolutions, which are used in the construction of the Adams spectral sequence. Definition For a fixed abelian group A let HA denote the set of Eilenberg–MacLane spaces \with the adjunction map coming from the property of loop spaces of Eilenberg–MacLane spaces: namely, because there is a homotopy equivalenceK(A,n-1)\simeq \Omega K(A,n)we c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adams Resolution
In mathematics, specifically algebraic topology, there is a resolution analogous to free resolutions of Spectrum (topology), spectra yielding a tool for constructing the Adams spectral sequence. Essentially, the idea is to take a connective spectrum of finite type X and iteratively resolve with other spectra that are in the homotopy kernel of a map resolving the cohomology classes in H^*(X;\mathbb/p) using Eilenberg–Maclane spectrum, Eilenberg–MacLane spectra. This construction can be generalized using a spectrum E, such as the Brown–Peterson cohomology, Brown–Peterson spectrum BP, or the complex cobordism spectrum MU, and is used in the construction of the Adams–Novikov spectral sequencepg 49. Construction The mod p Adams resolution (X_s,g_s) for a spectrum X is a certain "chain-complex" of spectra induced from recursively looking at the fibers of maps into generalized Eilenberg–MacLane spectra, Eilenberg–Maclane spectra giving generators for the cohomology of resol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sphere Spectrum
In stable homotopy theory, a branch of mathematics, the sphere spectrum ''S'' is the monoidal unit in the category of spectra. It is the suspension spectrum of ''S''0, i.e., a set of two points. Explicitly, the ''n''th space in the sphere spectrum is the ''n''-dimensional sphere ''S''''n'', and the structure maps from the suspension of ''S''''n'' to ''S''''n''+1 are the canonical homeomorphisms. The ''k''-th homotopy group of a sphere spectrum is the ''k''-th stable homotopy group of spheres. The localization of the sphere spectrum at a prime number ''p'' is called the local sphere at ''p'' and is denoted by S_. See also * Chromatic homotopy theory * Adams-Novikov spectral sequence *Framed cobordism Framed may refer to: Common meanings *A painting or photograph that has been placed within a picture frame *Someone falsely shown to be guilty of a crime as part of a frameup Film and television *Framed (1930 film), ''Framed'' (1930 film), a pre ... References * Algebraic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
P-adic Integers
In number theory, given a prime number , the -adic numbers form an extension of the rational numbers which is distinct from the real numbers, though with some similar properties; -adic numbers can be written in a form similar to (possibly infinite) decimals, but with digits based on a prime number rather than ten, and extending to the left rather than to the right. For example, comparing the expansion of the rational number \tfrac15 in base vs. the -adic expansion, \begin \tfrac15 &= 0.01210121\ldots \ (\text 3) &&= 0\cdot 3^0 + 0\cdot 3^ + 1\cdot 3^ + 2\cdot 3^ + \cdots \\ mu\tfrac15 &= \dots 121012102 \ \ (\text) &&= \cdots + 2\cdot 3^3 + 1 \cdot 3^2 + 0\cdot3^1 + 2 \cdot 3^0. \end Formally, given a prime number , a -adic number can be defined as a series s=\sum_^\infty a_i p^i = a_k p^k + a_ p^ + a_ p^ + \cdots where is an integer (possibly negative), and each a_i is an integer such that 0\le a_i < p. A -adic integer is a -adic number such that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spectrum Of Finite Type
A spectrum (: spectra or spectrums) is a set of related ideas, objects, or properties whose features overlap such that they blend to form a continuum. The word ''spectrum'' was first used scientifically in optics to describe the rainbow of colors in visible light after passing through a prism. In the optical spectrum, light wavelength is viewed as continuous, and spectral colors are seen to blend into one another smoothly when organized in order of their corresponding wavelengths. As scientific understanding of light advanced, the term came to apply to the entire electromagnetic spectrum, including radiation not visible to the human eye. ''Spectrum'' has since been applied by analogy to topics outside optics. Thus, one might talk about the " spectrum of political opinion", or the "spectrum of activity" of a drug, or the "autism spectrum". In these uses, values within a spectrum may not be associated with precisely quantifiable numbers or definitions. Such uses imply a broad ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connective Spectrum
In algebraic topology, a branch of mathematics, a connective spectrum is a spectrum whose homotopy In topology, two continuous functions from one topological space to another are called homotopic (from and ) if one can be "continuously deformed" into the other, such a deformation being called a homotopy ( ; ) between the two functions. ... sets \pi_k of negative degrees are zero.. References External links *Why are connective spectra called “connective”? Algebraic topology Spectra (topology) {{topology-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
