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Lemma 19.32. Let \( K \) be a compact space, let \( \mathcal{S} \) be a commutative semigroup of self-homeomorphisms of \( K \) acting minimally on \( K \), let \( {\varphi }_{1},\ldots ,{\varphi }_{k} \in \mathcal{S} \) and let \( I \subseteq \mathbb{N} \) be an IP set. Suppose that for every \( r \in \mathbb{N} \), f...
Proof. Let \( \varnothing \neq V \subseteq K \) be an open set. Since \( K \smallsetminus \mathop{\bigcup }\limits_{{\psi \in \mathcal{S}}}{\psi }^{-1}V \neq K \) is closed and invariant under the action of \( \mathcal{S} \), it must be empty by minimality of the action. By compactness there are \( {\psi }_{1},\ldots ,...
Yes
Theorem 19.36 (Gallai, Witt, Finitary Version). Let \( r, m \in \mathbb{N} \) and let \( F \subseteq {\mathbb{N}}^{m} \) be a finite nonempty set. Then there exists \( N = N\left( {r, m, F}\right) \in \mathbb{N} \) such that whenever\n\n\[ \n\{ 1,2,\ldots, N{\} }^{m} = {A}_{1} \cup {A}_{2} \cup \cdots \cup {A}_{r} \n\]...
Proof. Fix \( k \in \mathbb{N} \) with \( F \subseteq \{ 1,\ldots, k{\} }^{m} \) . Let \( K \mathrel{\text{:=}} \{ 1,\ldots, r{\} }^{{\mathbb{N}}^{m}} \) be the space of all \( r \) -colorings of \( {\mathbb{N}}^{m} \) and define the mapping\n\n\[ \n\lambda : K \rightarrow \mathbb{N},\;\lambda \left( x\right) \mathrel{...
Yes
Theorem 20.5 (Szemerédi, Finitary Version). For every \( \varepsilon > 0 \) and \( k \in \mathbb{N}, k \geq 2 \) there is \( N = N\left( {\varepsilon, k}\right) \) such that whenever \( A \subseteq \mathbb{N} \) is contained in an interval of length \( \ell \geq N \) and \( \operatorname{card}\left( A\right) \geq \vare...
Proof. Suppose by contradiction that the statement is false, i.e., that there is \( \varepsilon > 0 \) and \( k \in \mathbb{N} \) such that for every \( N \) there is \( {A}_{N} \subseteq \mathbb{N} \) without \( k \) -term arithmetic progressions but contained in an interval of length \( \ell \geq N \) and having card...
Yes
Proposition 20.6. Let \( \left( {X,\sum ,\mu }\right) \) be a probability space, let \( \varepsilon > 0 \) and \( k \in \mathbb{N}, k \geq 2 \) be given, and \( N \mathrel{\text{:=}} N\left( {\varepsilon /2, k}\right) \) obtained from the finitary Szemerédi Theorem 20.5. Suppose that \( {A}_{1},\ldots ,{A}_{N} \in \sum...
Proof. Define\n\n\[ A\left( x\right) \mathrel{\text{:=}} \left\{ {i : i \in \{ 1,2,\ldots, N\}, x \in {A}_{i}}\right\} \subseteq \mathbb{N}. \]\n\nFor the function \( f \) defined by \( f\left( x\right) \mathrel{\text{:=}} \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{N}{\mathbf{1}}_{{A}_{i}}\left( x\right) = \operatorname{card}\le...
Yes
Theorem 20.7 (Furstenberg, Multiple Recurrence). Let \( \left( {\mathrm{X};\varphi }\right) ,\mathrm{X} = \left( {X,\sum ,\mu }\right) \) , be a measure-preserving system, and let \( A \in \sum \) with \( \mu \left( A\right) > 0 \) . Then for every \( k \in \mathbb{N} \) there is \( n \in \mathbb{N} \) such that \[ \mu...
Proof. Take \( {A}_{j} \mathrel{\text{:=}} {\varphi }^{-j}\left( A\right) ,\varepsilon \mathrel{\text{:=}} \mu \left( A\right) \), and let \( n, a \in \{ 1,2,\ldots, N\} \) be as in Proposition 20.6. Since \( \varphi \) is measure-preserving, the assertion follows.
No
Corollary 20.8. Let \( \\left( {\\mathrm{X};\\varphi }\\right) ,\\mathrm{X} = \\left( {X,\\sum ,\\mu }\\right) \\), be a measure-preserving system with Koopman operator \( T \\mathrel{\\text{:=}} {T}_{\\varphi } \\), and let \( 0 < f \\in {\\mathrm{L}}^{\\infty }\\left( \\mathrm{X}\\right) \) . For every \( k \\in \\ma...
Proof. Apply Theorem 20.7 to the set \( A \\mathrel{\\text{:=}} \\left\\lbrack {f > \\frac{1}{2}\\parallel f{\\parallel }_{\\infty }}\\right\\rbrack \) and use that \( {T}^{j}f \\geq \) \( \\frac{1}{2}\\parallel f{\\parallel }_{\\infty }{T}^{j}{\\mathbf{1}}_{A} \) for each \( j \\in \\mathbb{N}. \)
Yes
Lemma 20.9. Let \( \\left( {K;\\varphi }\\right) \) be a topological system with \( K \) metrizable, \( T \\mathrel{\\text{:=}} {T}_{\\varphi } \) be the Koopman operator on \( \\mathrm{C}\\left( K\\right) \) and \( 0 < g \\in \\mathrm{C}\\left( K\\right) \) . For every \( k \\in \\mathbb{N} \) and \( \\varepsilon > 0 ...
Proof. Suppose by contradiction that there are \( k,{n}_{0} \\in \\mathbb{N} \) and \( \\varepsilon > 0 \) such that for every \( j \\in \\mathbb{N} \) and for every \( {N}_{0} \\in \\mathbb{N} \) with \( {N}_{0} \\geq {n}_{0} \) there is an invariant probability measure \( {\\mu }_{j,{N}_{0}} \) with \( \\left\\langle...
Yes
Lemma 20.10. Let \( \left( {\mathrm{X};\varphi }\right) \) and \( \left( {\mathrm{Y};\psi }\right) \) be measure-preserving systems and let \( S \in \mathrm{M}\left( {\mathrm{Y};\mathrm{X}}\right) \) be a Markov embedding that intertwines the Koopman operators \( {T}_{\varphi } \) and \( {T}_{\psi } \) . Then for all \...
Proof. By Theorem 13.9 a Markov embedding is multiplicative, the assertion hence follows from the identity \( {T}_{\varphi }S = S{T}_{\psi } \) .
No
For every \( k \in \mathbb{N} \) and \( \varepsilon > 0 \) there is a constant \( {c}_{1}\left( {k,\varepsilon }\right) > 0 \) and there is \( {N}_{1} \mathrel{\text{:=}} {N}_{1}\left( {k,\varepsilon }\right) \in \mathbb{N} \) such that for every measure-preserving system \( \left( {\mathrm{X};\varphi }\right) \) with ...
Consider the shift system \( \left( {{\mathcal{W}}_{2}^{ + };\tau }\right) \), and let \( g \in \mathrm{C}\left( {\mathcal{W}}_{2}^{ + }\right) \) be the \( {0}^{\text{th }} \) coordinate projection, i.e., \( g\left( {\left( {x}_{n}\right) }_{n \in {\mathbb{N}}_{0}}\right) = {x}_{0} \) . For \( k \) and \( \varepsilon ...
Yes
Proposition 20.15. Let \( \left( {\mathrm{X};\varphi }\right) \) be a weakly mixing measure-preserving system and let \( T \mathrel{\text{:=}} {T}_{\varphi } \) be the Koopman operator on \( {\mathrm{L}}^{2}\left( \mathrm{X}\right) \) . Then\n\n\[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{N \rightarrow \infty }}\frac{1}{N}\mathop{\sum }...
Recall that the van der Corput Lemma 9.28 played the central role in the proof.
No
Proposition 20.16. Let \( \left( {\mathrm{X};\varphi }\right) \) be an ergodic measure-preserving system and let \( T \mathrel{\text{:=}} {T}_{\varphi } \) be the Koopman operator on \( {\mathrm{L}}^{2}\left( \mathrm{X}\right) \) . If \( T \) has discrete spectrum on \( {\mathrm{L}}^{2}\left( \mathrm{X}\right) \) , the...
Proof. Let \( {f}_{1},\ldots ,{f}_{k - 1} \in {\mathrm{L}}^{\infty }\left( \mathrm{X}\right) \) be eigenvectors of \( T \) corresponding to unimodular eigenvalues \( {\lambda }_{1},\ldots ,{\lambda }_{k - 1} \) . Then we have\n\n\[ \frac{1}{N}\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{n = 1}}^{N}\left( {{T}^{n}{f}_{1}}\right) \cdot \left...
Yes
Lemma 20.18. Let \( \left( {\mathrm{X};\varphi }\right) \) be an ergodic measure-preserving system. Let \( f, g \in \) \( {\mathrm{L}}^{\infty }\left( \mathrm{X}\right) \) such that \( f \in {E}_{\text{aws }} \) or \( g \in {E}_{\text{aws }} \) . Then\n\n\[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{N \rightarrow \infty }}\frac{1}{N}\mat...
Proof. The proof is an application of the van der Corput lemma. We let \( {u}_{n} \mathrel{\text{:=}} \) \( \left( {{T}^{n}f}\right) \cdot \left( {{T}^{2n}g}\right) \) and write\n\n\[ \left( {{u}_{n} \mid {u}_{n + m}}\right) = {\int }_{\mathrm{X}}\left( {{T}^{n}f}\right) \cdot \left( {{T}^{2n}g}\right) \cdot \left( {{T...
Yes
Theorem 20.22 (Furstenberg Correspondence Principle for Squares). If for every ergodic measure-preserving system \( \left( {\mathrm{X};\varphi }\right) \), its Koopman operator \( T \mathrel{\text{:=}} {T}_{\varphi } \) on \( {\mathrm{L}}^{2}\left( \mathrm{X}\right) \) and every \( 0 < f \in {\mathrm{L}}^{\infty }\left...
The proof of this correspondence principle is analogous to the one of Theorem 20.4. Then, to prove Theorem 20.21 one first shows that for a measure-preserving system \( \left( {\mathrm{X};\varphi }\right) \) and its Koopman operator \( T \mathrel{\text{:=}} {T}_{\varphi } \) the limit\n\n\[ \n\mathop{\lim }\limits_{{N ...
No
Proposition 20.23. Let \( \left( {\mathrm{X};\varphi }\right) \) be an ergodic measure-preserving system. Then the limit (20.19) is strictly positive for every \( 0 < f \in {\mathrm{L}}^{\infty }\left( \mathrm{X}\right) \) .
The proof is analogous to that of Theorem 20.19 for \( k = 3 \) and again uses the decomposition \( {\mathrm{L}}^{2}\left( \mathrm{X}\right) = {E}_{\text{aws }} \oplus {E}_{\text{rev }} \), the vanishing of the above limit on \( {E}_{\text{aws }} \) and a relative denseness argument on \( {E}_{\mathrm{{rev}}} \), see E...
No
Theorem 21.2. For a bounded sequence \( {\left( {a}_{n}\right) }_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \) in \( \mathbb{C} \) the following assertions are equivalent:\n\n(i) The sequence \( {\left( {a}_{n}\right) }_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \) is a good weight for the mean ergodic theorem.\n\n(ii) For every isometry \( T \) on a Hilbert space \...
Proof. First of all we note that the sum on the right-hand side of (21.3) is strongly convergent for every bounded function \( c : \mathbb{T} \rightarrow \mathbb{C} \), because by Exercise 16.19 eigenvectors of a contraction to different unimodular eigenfunctions are orthogonal.\n\nThe implications (i) \( \Rightarrow \...
Yes
Corollary 21.6. Let \( \left( {\mathrm{X};\varphi }\right) \) be a measure-preserving system and \( f \in {\mathrm{L}}^{\infty }\left( \mathrm{X}\right) \) . Then for almost every \( x \) the sequence of weights \( {\left( f\left( {\varphi }^{n}\left( x\right) \right) \right) }_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \) is good for the mea...
The almost everywhere convergence of (21.4) for a fixed \( \lambda \in \mathbb{T} \) follows from Birkhoff’s Theorem 11.1 applied to the product system \( \left( {Y, v;\psi }\right) \) and \( g \in {\mathrm{L}}^{1}\left( {Y, v}\right) \) for \( Y \mathrel{\text{:=}} \mathbb{T} \times X \) with product measure \( v,\psi...
Yes
Lemma 21.7. Take a bounded sequence \( {\left( {a}_{n}\right) }_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \) in \( \mathbb{C} \), an ergodic measure-preserving system \( \left( {\mathrm{X};\varphi }\right) \) and \( f,{f}_{1},{f}_{2},\ldots \) integrable functions on \( X \) with \( \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{j \rightarrow \infty }}{\begin{Vmat...
Proof. Since \( x \) is generic for \( \left| {f}_{j}\right| \) and the sequence \( {\left( {\begin{Vmatrix}{f}_{j}\end{Vmatrix}}_{1}\right) }_{j \in \mathbb{N}} \) is bounded, the sequence \( {\left( {b}_{j}\right) }_{j \in \mathbb{N}} \) is bounded and hence has a convergent subsequence, say \( {b}_{{j}_{m}} \rightar...
Yes
Theorem 21.8 (Uniform Wiener-Wintner Theorem). Let \( T \) be a Koopman operator as above and let \( f \in {\mathrm{L}}^{1}\left( \mathrm{X}\right) \) be orthogonal to all eigenfunctions of \( T \) . Then\n\n\[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{N \rightarrow \infty }}\mathop{\sup }\limits_{{\lambda \in \mathbb{T}}}\left| {\frac{...
The proof is analogous to the one of Theorem 21.5 using a finitary version of the van der Corput lemma, see, e.g., Assani (2003, Ch. 2) and Schreiber (2013a).
No
Theorem 21.10 (Bourgain Return Time Theorem). Let \( \left( {\mathrm{X};\varphi }\right) \) be a measure-preserving system and \( f \in {\mathrm{L}}^{\infty }\left( \mathrm{X}\right) \) . Then for almost every \( x \in X \), the sequence \( {\left( f\left( {\varphi }^{n}\left( x\right) \right) \right) }_{n \in \mathbb{...
For the proof we refer to the original paper of Bourgain (1989) or to a more detailed version in Assani (2003). Further proofs and generalizations are in Rudolph (1994, 1998), Ornstein and Weiss (1992) and Zorin-Kranich (2014a, 2014b), see also Demeter et al. (2008) and the survey article by Assani and Presser (2013).
No
Theorem 21.13. Let \( \left( {\mathrm{X};\varphi }\right) ,\mathrm{X} = \left( {X,\sum ,\mu }\right) \), be a measure-preserving system and \( f \) be an integrable function on \( X \) . Then there exists a set \( {X}^{\prime } \in \sum \) with \( \mu \left( {X}^{\prime }\right) = 1 \) such that the weighted averages\n...
Proof. By the approximation argument based on Lemma 21.7, cf. the proof of Theorem 21.5, it suffices to take \( f \in {\mathrm{L}}^{\infty }\left( \mathrm{X}\right) \) . Let \( S \) be an operator on a Banach space \( E \) with relatively weakly compact orbits (hence power-bounded), \( y \in E,{y}^{\prime } \in {E}^{\p...
Yes
Theorem 21.14. Let \( {\left( {k}_{n}\right) }_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \) be a subsequence of \( \mathbb{N} \) . Then the following assertions are equivalent:\n\n(i) For every contraction \( T \) on a Hilbert space \( H \), the averages\n\n\[ \n\frac{1}{N}\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{n = 1}}^{N}{T}^{{k}_{n}}f \n\]\n\n(21.6)\n\nc...
The proof of the implication (iv) \( \Rightarrow \) (ii) is Exercise 4, and (ii) \( \Rightarrow \) (i) follows as in the proof of Theorem 21.2.
No
Theorem 21.17. Let \( q : \mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{N} \) be a polynomial. Then for every contraction \( T \) on a Hilbert space \( H \), the averages\n\n\[ \n\frac{1}{N}\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{n = 1}}^{N}{T}^{q\left( n\right) }f \n\]\n\n(21.7)\n\nconverge strongly for every \( f \in H \) as \( N \rightarrow \inft...
Proof. By Exercise 16.19 the eigenspaces corresponding to different unimodular eigenvalues are orthogonal. Since \( c\left( \lambda \right) \) exists-as will be shown in a moment-and is bounded by 1 for \( \lambda \in {\sigma }_{\mathrm{p}}\left( T\right) \cap \mathbb{T} \), the sum \( \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{\lambda \...
No
Corollary 1. Let \( \left( {X, A}\right) \) be a \( {CW} \) pair. If \( A \) is contractible, then \( X/A \sim X \) . More precisely: The projection \( X \rightarrow X/A \) is a homotopy equivalence.
Proof. Let \( p \) be the projection \( X \rightarrow X/A \) . Since \( A \) is contractible, there is a homotopy \( {f}_{t} : A \rightarrow A \) such that \( {f}_{0} = {\mathrm{{id}}}_{A} \) and \( {f}_{1} = \) const. By Borsuk’s theorem, there exists a homotopy \( {F}_{t} : X \rightarrow X \) such that \( {F}_{0} = {...
No
Corollary 2. If \( \left( {X, A}\right) \) is a CW pair, then \( X/A \sim X \cup {CA} \), where \( {CA} \) is a cone over \( A \) .
Proof. \( X/A = \left( {X \cup {CA}}\right) /{CA} \sim X \cup {CA} \) . The latter follows from Corollary 1 applied to the CW complex \( X \cup {CA} \) and its contractible CW subcomplex \( {CA} \) .
Yes
Proposition 1. Let \( y \in T \) . A deck transformation \( f : T \rightarrow T \) is fully determined by the image \( f\left( y\right) \) of \( y \) . In particular, if a deck transformation \( f \) has a fixed point, then \( f = \mathrm{{id}} \) .
Proof. Let \( z \in T \) . Choose a path \( s : I \rightarrow T \) joining \( y \) with \( z \) . Let \( {s}^{\prime } : I \rightarrow T \) be a path obtained by lifting \( p \circ s : I \rightarrow X \) with the beginning \( f\left( y\right) \) . The paths \( f \circ s \) and \( {s}^{\prime } \) have a common beginnin...
Yes
Proposition 2. Let \( y,{y}^{\prime } \in T \) and \( p\left( y\right) = p\left( {y}^{\prime }\right) \) . A deck transformation \( f : T \rightarrow T \) such that \( f\left( y\right) = {y}^{\prime } \) exists if and only if \( {p}_{ * }{\pi }_{1}\left( {T, y}\right) = {p}_{ * }{\pi }_{1}\left( {T,{y}^{\prime }}\right...
Proof. Let there be a deck transformation \( f : T \rightarrow T \) with \( f\left( y\right) = {y}^{\prime } \) . Let \( s : I \rightarrow T \) be a loop with the beginning \( y \) representing an arbitrarily chosen element \( \alpha \) of \( {\pi }_{1}\left( {T, y}\right) \) . Consider the lifting \( {s}^{\prime } : I...
Yes
If \( \Gamma \) is a discrete subgroup of a topological group \( G \), then there arises a regular covering \( G \rightarrow G/\Gamma \).
For example, there are many known discrete subgroups in the group \( {SO}\left( 3\right) \) : the dihedral groups, the groups of symmetries of Platonic solids, and so forth. For each of these groups \( \Gamma \) there arises a regular covering \( {SO}\left( 3\right) \rightarrow \) \( {SO}\left( 3\right) /\Gamma \) ; si...
No
Theorem. Let \( p : T \rightarrow X \) be a covering, and let \( Z \) be a path connected space. Let \( {\widetilde{x}}_{0} \in T,{x}_{0} = p\left( {\widetilde{x}}_{0}\right) \in X \), and \( {z}_{0} \in Z \) be base points and let \( f : Z \rightarrow X \) be a continuous map such that \( f\left( {z}_{0}\right) = {x}_...
Proof. Let \( {F}^{\prime },{F}^{\prime \prime } \) be two such maps. Let \( z \in Z \) be an arbitrary point, and let \( s : I \rightarrow Z \) be a path joining \( {z}_{0} \) with \( z \) . The paths \( {F}^{\prime } \circ s,{F}^{\prime \prime } \circ s : I \rightarrow T \) both begin at \( {\widetilde{x}}_{0} \) and...
Yes
Every element of \( {\pi }_{1}\left( {X,{x}_{0}}\right) \) may be presented as a product\n\n\[ \n{i}_{{k}_{1}}\left( {\alpha }_{1}\right) \ldots {i}_{{k}_{N}}\left( {\alpha }_{N}\right) \]\n\n(*) \n\nwhere \( {k}_{s} = 1 \) or 2 and \( {\alpha }_{s} \in {\pi }_{1}\left( {{U}_{{k}_{s}},{x}_{0}}\right) \) .
Proof. Let \( \sigma : I \rightarrow X \) be a loop representing the chosen element of \( {\pi }_{1}\left( {X,{x}_{0}}\right) \) . A simple fact from analysis states that there exists an \( n \) such that for each \( r = \) \( 1,\ldots, n,\sigma \left( \left\lbrack {\frac{r - 1}{n},\frac{r}{n}}\right\rbrack \right) \) ...
Yes
Proposition 2. The word (1) is equal to \( 1 \in {\pi }_{1}\left( {X,{x}_{0}}\right) \) if and only if it can be reduced by admissible transformations to the trivial word \( \left( {{i}_{1}\left( 1\right) }\right. \) or \( \left. {{i}_{2}\left( 1\right) }\right) \) .
Proof. The if part of this proposition is obvious [admissible transformations do not change the product (1)]. Prove the only if part.\n\nSuppose that a product \( \left( *\right) \) is equal to \( 1 \in {\pi }_{1}\left( {X,{x}_{0}}\right) \) . Let \( {\sigma }_{r} : I \rightarrow {U}_{{k}_{r}} \subset X \) be a loop (o...
No
Theorem 3. The fundamental group of the complement to the trefoil is a group with two generators, \( a \) and \( b \), and one relation: \( {aba} = {bab} \) .
One can take for the generators \( u = {ab} \) and \( v = {bab} \) ; then the relation takes the form \( {u}^{3} = {v}^{2} \).
Yes
Theorem 4. The fundamental group of the complement to the trefoil is not commutative.
Indeed, the formulas \( f\left( a\right) = \left( {213}\right), f\left( b\right) = \left( {132}\right) \) define a homomorphism of the group \( {\pi }_{1}\left( {{\mathbb{R}}^{3} - K}\right) \) onto \( S\left( 3\right) \) [because (213) and (132) satisfy the above relation and generate the group \( S\left( 3\right) \rb...
Yes
Theorem 1. Let \( p : T \rightarrow X \) be a covering, let \( {\widetilde{x}}_{0} \in T \), and let \( {x}_{0} = p\left( {\widetilde{x}}_{0}\right) \in X \) . If \( n \geq 2 \), then \( {p}_{ * } : {\pi }_{n}\left( {T,{\widetilde{x}}_{0}}\right) \rightarrow {\pi }_{n}\left( {X,{x}_{0}}\right) \) is an isomorphism.
This follows from results of Sect. 6.10 (see the corollary in this section) and from the simply connectedness of the sphere \( {S}^{n} \) for \( n \geq 2 \) .
No
Theorem 2.\n\n\[ \n{\pi }_{n}\left( {S}^{1}\right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l} \mathbb{Z},\text{ if }n = 1 \\ 0,\text{ if }n \geq 2 \end{array}\right. \n\]
The first is already known (Sect. 6.3), the second follows from the fact that there is a covering \( \mathbb{R} \rightarrow {S}^{1} \), and the line \( \mathbb{R} \) is contractible.
No
Proposition 1. If\n\n![ca3d23e8-d3f0-4fbc-a946-2e04586ccbf2_114_1.jpg](images/ca3d23e8-d3f0-4fbc-a946-2e04586ccbf2_114_1.jpg)\n\n\nis a commutative diagram with exact rows, \( {\varphi }_{1} \) is an epimorphism, and \( {\varphi }_{2},{\varphi }_{4} \) are monomorphisms, then \( {\varphi }_{3} \) is also a monomorphism...
Proof of Proposition 1. Let \( {a}_{3} \in {A}_{3} \) and \( {\varphi }_{3}\left( {a}_{3}\right) = 0 \) . Then \( {g}_{3} \circ {\varphi }_{3}\left( {a}_{3}\right) = \) \( 0 \Rightarrow {\varphi }_{4} \circ {f}_{3}\left( {a}_{3}\right) = 0 \) (commutativity of the third square) \( \Rightarrow {f}_{3}\left( {a}_{3}\righ...
Yes
Proposition 1. The definition of a Serre fibration is equivalent to the definition which states CHP only for the case when \( \left( {X, Y}\right) = \left( {{D}^{n},{S}^{n - 1}}\right) \) for all \( n \) .
Proof. Repeat cases 3 and 4 of the proof in Sect. 9.3.
No
Proposition 2. The definition of a Serre fibration is equivalent to the definition which states CHP only in the absolute form.
Proof. By Proposition 1, it is sufficient to deduce the relative CHP for \( \left( {X, Y}\right) = \) \( \left( {{D}^{n},{S}^{n - 1}}\right) \) from the absolute CHP for \( X = {D}^{n} \) . But the two statements are essentially the same, as Fig. 47 shows.
Yes
Example 2 (Path fibration). Let \( W \) be an arbitrary topological space with a base point \( {w}_{0} \) . Put \( E = E\left( {W,{w}_{0}}\right) \) (the space of paths of \( W \) beginning at \( {w}_{0} \) ), \( B = W \) , and define \( p : E \rightarrow B \) by the formula \( p\left( s\right) = s\left( 1\right) \) . ...
Indeed, let \( \widetilde{\varphi } : X \rightarrow E \) be a continuous map, and let \( \Phi : X \times I \rightarrow B = W \) be a homotopy such that \( \Phi \left( {x,0}\right) = \left( {\widetilde{\varphi }\left( x\right) }\right) \left( 1\right) \) for every \( x \in X \) (see Fig. 48). The covering homotopy \( \w...
Yes
Proposition 1. The homology \( {\widetilde{H}}_{n}\left( X\right) \) of the reduced singular complex (called the reduced homology of \( X \) ) is related to the usual homology as follows. If \( X \) is not empty, then\n\n\[ \n{H}_{n}\left( X\right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {\widetilde{H}}_{n}\left( X\right) ,\;\text{...
Proof. Obvious.
No
Proposition 2. If chain maps \( \varphi ,\psi : \mathcal{C} \rightarrow {\mathcal{C}}^{\prime } \) are homotopic, then the induced homology maps \( {\varphi }_{ * },{\psi }_{ * } : {H}_{n}\left( \mathcal{C}\right) \rightarrow {H}_{n}\left( {\mathcal{C}}^{\prime }\right) \) are equal.
Proof. Let \( D = \left\{ {D}_{n}\right\} \) be a homotopy between \( \varphi \) and \( \psi \) . If \( c \in \operatorname{Ker}{\partial }_{n} \subset {C}_{n} \), then\n\n\[ \n{\psi }_{n}\left( c\right) - {\varphi }_{n}\left( c\right) = {D}_{n - 1} \circ {\partial }_{n}\left( c\right) + {\partial }_{n + 1}^{\prime } \...
Yes
Example 1 (Barycentric Transformator). The barycentric subdivision of the standard simplex \( {\Delta }^{n} \) (see Fig. 21 in Sect. 5.8) consists of \( \left( {n + 1}\right) \) ! \( n \) -dimensional Euclidean simplices corresponding to chains \( {\delta }^{0} \subset {\delta }^{1} \subset \cdots \subset {\delta }^{n}...
\[ {u}_{k}^{\sigma } = \frac{{v}_{\sigma \left( 0\right) } + {v}_{\sigma \left( 1\right) } + \cdots + {v}_{\sigma \left( k\right) }}{k + 1}, k = 0,1,\ldots, n, \] where \( {v}_{0},{v}_{1},\ldots ,{v}_{n} \) are the vertices of \( {\Delta }^{n} \) in their natural order. The correspondence \( {v}_{i} \mapsto {u}_{i}^{\s...
Yes
Theorem 1. For all \( n \) ,\n\n\[ \n{\widetilde{H}}_{m}\left( {S}^{n}\right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l} \mathbb{Z},\text{ if }m = n, \\ 0,\text{ if }m \neq n. \end{array}\right.\n\]
Proof of Theorem 1 Consider a portion of the reduced homology sequence of the pair \( \left( {{D}^{n},{S}^{n - 1}}\right) \) :\n\n\[ \n\begin{matrix} {\widetilde{H}}_{m}\left( {D}^{n}\right) \rightarrow {H}_{m}\left( {{D}^{n},{S}^{n - 1}}\right) \rightarrow {\widetilde{H}}_{m - 1}\left( {S}^{n - 1}\right) \rightarrow {...
No
Theorem 2. For any topological space \( X \) and any \( n \) , \[ {\widetilde{H}}_{n}\left( {\sum X}\right) = {\widetilde{H}}_{n - 1}\left( X\right) \]
Proof. It follows from the reduced homology sequence of the pair \( \left( {{CX}, X}\right) \), the contractibility of \( {CX} \), the equality \( {\sum X} = {CX}/X \), and the (obvious) fact that \( \left( {{CX}, X}\right) \) is a Borsuk pair.
No
Theorem 1. Let \( A \) be an arbitrary set and let \( {S}_{\alpha }^{n},\alpha \in A \), be copies of the standard \( n \) -dimensional sphere. Then\n\n\[ \n{\widetilde{H}}_{n}\left( {\mathop{\bigvee }\limits_{{\alpha \in A}}{S}_{\alpha }^{n}}\right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} {\bigoplus }_{\alpha \in A}\mathbb{Z}\alp...
Proof. This follows from Theorem 2 of Sect. 13.1, since \( \mathop{\bigvee }\limits_{{\alpha \in A}}{S}_{\alpha }^{n} \) is homotopy equivalent to the suspension of \( \mathop{\bigvee }\limits_{{\alpha \in A}}{S}_{\alpha }^{n - 1} \) (and even is homeomorphic to this suspension if the latter is understood in the base p...
Yes
Theorem 2. If \( \left( {{X}_{\alpha },{x}_{\alpha }}\right) \) are base point spaces which are Borsuk pairs, then for any \( m \) , \[ {\widetilde{H}}_{m}\left( {\mathop{\bigvee }\limits_{{\alpha \in A}}{X}_{\alpha }}\right) = {\bigoplus }_{\alpha \in A}{\widetilde{H}}_{m}\left( {X}_{\alpha }\right) \]
Proof. A bouquet is the quotient space of a disjoint union under the union of the base points.
No
Theorem 1. If the number of n-dimensional cells of a CW complex \( X \) is \( N \), then the group \( {H}_{n}\left( X\right) \) is generated by at most \( N \) generators; in particular, the nth Betti number \( {B}_{n}\left( X\right) \) does not exceed \( N \) . For example, if \( X \) does not have \( n \) -dimensiona...
It follows directly from previous results.
No
Theorem 2 (Excision Theorem). Let \( X \) be a \( {CW} \) complex and let \( A, B \) be \( {CW} \) subcomplexes of \( X \) such that \( A \cup B = X \) . Then (for every \( n \) )\n\n\[{H}_{n}\left( {X, A}\right) = {H}_{n}\left( {B, A \cap B}\right) .\]
Indeed, \( X/A \) and \( B/\left( {A \cap B}\right) \) are the same as CW complexes.
No
Theorem 3 (Mayer-Vietoris Sequence). Let \( X \) be a CW complex and let \( A, B \) be \( {CW} \) subcomplexes of \( X \) such that \( A \cup B = X \) . Then there exists an exact sequence\n\n\[ \cdots \rightarrow {H}_{n}\left( {A \cap B}\right) \rightarrow {H}_{n}\left( A\right) \oplus {H}_{n}\left( B\right) \rightarr...
Proof. Let \( Y = \left( {A \times 0}\right) \cup \left( {\left( {A \cap B}\right) \times I}\right) \cup \left( {B \times 1}\right) \subset X \times I \) and let \( C \subset Y \) be \( \left( {A \cap B}\right) \times I \) . Then \( Y/C \) and \( \sum \left( {A \cap B}\right) \) (actually with the vertices merged; this...
Yes
Lemma 2. The kernel \( \operatorname{Ker}\left( {A \otimes {F}_{2} \rightarrow A \otimes {F}_{1}}\right) \) does not depend on the choice of presentation \( B = {F}_{2}/{F}_{1} \) .
Proof The proof consists in constructing a canonical isomorphism\n\n\[ \operatorname{Ker}\left( {A \otimes {F}_{2}^{\prime } \rightarrow A \otimes {F}_{1}^{\prime }}\right) \cong \operatorname{Ker}\left( {A \otimes {F}_{2} \rightarrow A \otimes {F}_{1}}\right) \]\n\nfor an arbitrary other presentation \( B = {F}_{1}^{\...
Yes
Corollary 1. For every homomorphism \( f : {H}_{n}\left( X\right) \rightarrow G \), there exists a cohomology class \( \gamma \in {H}^{n}\left( {X;G}\right) \) such that \( f\left( \alpha \right) = \langle \gamma ,\alpha \rangle \) for every \( \alpha \in {H}_{n}\left( G\right) \) .
Remark also that this \( \gamma \) is defined up to an element of \( \operatorname{Ext}\left( {{H}_{n}\left( X\right), G}\right) \) ; in particular, if \( {H}_{n}\left( X\right) \) and \( G \) are finitely generated, then this Ext group is finite, so \( \gamma \) is defined by \( f \) up to adding an element of finite ...
No
Theorem 1. Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2} \) be topological spaces. Then for any \( n \) ,\n\n(1) There is a (noncanonical) isomorphism\n\n\[ \n{H}_{n}\left( {{X}_{1} \times {X}_{2}}\right) \cong \n\]\n\n\[ \n\mathop{\bigoplus }\limits_{{i + j = n}}\left( {{H}_{i}\left( {X}_{1}\right) \otimes {H}_{j}\left( {X}_{2}\right) }\rig...
We will deduce Theorem 1 from an algebraic result related to the tensor product of complexes.\n\nDefinition. Let\n\n\[ \n\begin{array}{l} \left( \mathcal{C}\right) \;\ldots \xrightarrow[]{{\partial }_{n + 1}}{C}_{n}\xrightarrow[]{{\partial }_{n}}{C}_{n - 1}\xrightarrow[]{{\partial }_{n}}\ldots \\ \left( {\mathcal{C}}^{...
Yes
Theorem 2. If the complexes \( \mathcal{C} \), and \( {\mathcal{C}}^{\prime } \) are free (that is, all \( {C}_{n},{C}_{n}^{\prime } \) are free Abelian groups), then, for every \( n \) ,\n\n(1) There is a (noncanonical) isomorphism\n\n\[ \n{H}_{n}\left( {\mathcal{C} \otimes {\mathcal{C}}^{\prime }}\right) \cong \n\]\n...
Proof. Begin with part (2). Let \( {Z}_{n} = \operatorname{Ker}{\partial }_{n},{B}_{n - 1} = \operatorname{Im}{\partial }_{n} \) . Consider the diagram ![ca3d23e8-d3f0-4fbc-a946-2e04586ccbf2_212_0.jpg](images/ca3d23e8-d3f0-4fbc-a946-2e04586ccbf2_212_0.jpg)\n\nThe rows of this diagram are complexes, the columns are exac...
Yes
Theorem 2. Every compact smooth manifold is homeomorphic to a triangulated subset of an Euclidean space, and the homeomorphism can be made smooth on every simplex of the triangulation.
We do not prove these theorems. Theorem 1 is proved in many textbooks in differential topology. Its proof is not hard. The situation with Theorem 2 is worse. Since the 1920s, the topologist regarded this fact as obvious. There are many geometric approaches to this result which look promising. For example, take a compac...
No
Proposition 1. (1) A triangulated space \( X \) is an \( n \) -dimensional homology manifold if and only if for every vertex \( v \) of \( X \), the link \( \operatorname{Lk}\left( v\right) \) is a homological \( \left( {n - 1}\right) \) - dimensional sphere (that is, has the same homology groups as \( {S}^{n - 1} \) )...
Proof. Open stars of vertices, \( \operatorname{st}\left( v\right) = \operatorname{St}\left( v\right) - \operatorname{Lk}\left( v\right) \), for an open cover of \( X \) . Also, \( \operatorname{St}\left( v\right) \) is a cone over \( \operatorname{Lk}\left( v\right) \) with the vertex \( v \) . Thus, if \( {x}_{0} \in...
Yes
Proposition 2. Every connected n-dimensional homology manifold is an \( n \) -dimensional pseudomanifold.
Proof. Let \( X \) be an \( n \) -dimensional homology manifold. Since the link of every vertex of \( X \) is an \( \left( {n - 1}\right) \) -dimensional homological sphere, this link contains simplices of dimension \( \geq n - 1 \) ; hence, every vertex is a vertex of an \( n \) -dimensional simplex. There cannot be s...
Yes
Theorem 1. Let \( X \) be a smooth closed oriented \( n \) -dimensional manifold, and let \( {\alpha }_{1} \in {H}_{m}\left( X\right) ,{\alpha }_{2} \in {H}_{n - m}\left( X\right) \) . Let \( {Y}_{1} \) and \( {Y}_{2} \) be closed oriented submanifolds of \( X \) of dimensions \( m \) and \( n - m \) which realize \( {...
As usual (see the warning in the beginning of this lecture), we do not give a rigorous proof of these statements; but from the point of view of common sense they are obvious. We can make the simplices of a triangulation of \( X \) much smaller than the distances between the intersection points of \( {Y}_{1} \) and \( {...
No
Theorem 3. Let \( X \) be a connected closed orientable manifold of even dimension \( {2k} \), and let \( {H}_{k}^{0}\left( X\right) \) be the free part of \( {H}_{k}\left( X\right) \) . Then the integral bilinear form \( \phi \) (the intersection index) on \( {H}_{k}^{0}\left( X\right) \) is unimodular [that is, the m...
Proof of Theorem 3. Consider the homomorphism \( {\omega }_{i} : {H}_{k}^{0}\left( X\right) \rightarrow \mathbb{Z},{\omega }_{i}\left( {\alpha }_{j}\right) = {\delta }_{ij} \) . By part (2) of Theorem 2, there exists a \( {\beta }_{i} \in {H}^{k}\left( {X;\mathbb{Z}}\right) \) such that \( \left\langle {{\beta }_{i},\a...
Yes
Theorem 4. Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2} \) be a compact oriented homology manifold of dimensions \( {n}_{1},{n}_{2} \), and let \( {\gamma }_{1} \in {H}^{{q}_{1}}\left( {{X}_{1};G}\right) ,{\gamma }_{2} \in {H}^{{q}_{2}}\left( {{X}_{2};G}\right) \) . Then\n\n\[ \n{D}_{{X}_{1} \times {X}_{2}}\left( {{\gamma }_{1} \times {\gam...
Proof. We use the obvious relation \( \left( {{\alpha }_{1} \times {\alpha }_{2}}\right) \frown {p}_{1}^{ * }\gamma = \left( {a \frown \gamma }\right) \times \beta \) ), where \( {\alpha }_{1} \in {H}_{{q}_{1}}\left( {X}_{1}\right) ,{\alpha }_{2} \in {H}_{{q}_{2}}\left( {X}_{2}\right) ,\gamma \in {H}^{r}\left( {{X}_{1}...
Yes
Theorem 1. Let \( X \) be a finitely triangulated space, and let \( f : X \rightarrow X \) be a continuous map. If \( f \) has no fixed points, then \( \mathcal{L}\left( f\right) = 0 \) .
Proof. We assume that \( X \) is furnished with a metric in which every simplex is isometric to the standard simplex. Then there is a positive \( \delta \) such that \( \operatorname{dist}\left( {x, f\left( x\right) }\right) > \delta \) for every \( x \in X \) . By applying to \( X \) the barycentric subdivision suffic...
Yes
Theorem 2. Let \( X \) be a compact smooth manifold (not necessarily orientable, and maybe with a nonempty boundary), and let \( \xi \) be a vector field on \( X \) . Suppose that \( \xi \) has no zeroes and that on the boundary \( \partial X \) it is directed inside \( X \) . Then \( \chi \left( X\right) = 0 \) .
Proof of Theorem 2. A vector field \( \xi \) on \( X \) (with or without zeroes) determines a \
No
Lemma 1. \( \phi \left( {{f}_{ * }{\alpha }_{1},{\alpha }_{2}}\right) = {\left( -1\right) }^{\dim {\alpha }_{1}}\phi \left( {{F}_{ * }\left\lbrack X\right\rbrack ,{\alpha }_{1} \times {\alpha }_{2}}\right) \) .
Proof of Lemma 1. Let \( {\alpha }_{1} = D{\gamma }_{1},{\alpha }_{2} = D{\gamma }_{2} \) . Then\n\n\[ \phi \left( {{F}_{ * }\left\lbrack X\right\rbrack ,{\alpha }_{1} \times {\alpha }_{2}}\right) = \phi \left( {{\left( \operatorname{id} \times f\right) }_{ * } \circ {\Delta }_{ * }\left\lbrack X\right\rbrack ,{\alpha ...
Yes
Lemma 2. Let \( {\alpha }_{1},\ldots ,{\alpha }_{N} \) be a basis in the free part of the full homology group of a compact oriented homology manifold \( X \) [first, the basis in \( {H}_{0}\left( X\right) \), then \( {H}_{1}\left( X\right) \), and so on], and let \( {\alpha }_{1}^{ * },\ldots ,{\alpha }_{N}^{ * } \) be...
Proof. By part (2) of Theorem 2 in Sect. 17.5, it is sufficient to prove that\n\n\[ \phi \left( {{\Delta }_{ * }\left\lbrack X\right\rbrack ,{\alpha }_{p} \times {\alpha }_{q}}\right) = \phi \left( {\mathop{\sum }\limits_{i}\left( {{\alpha }_{i}^{ * } \times {\alpha }_{i}}\right) ,{\alpha }_{p} \times {\alpha }_{q}}\ri...
No
Proposition 1. Let \( X, Y \), and \( f \) be as above, and let \( \alpha \in {H}_{q}\left( Y\right) ,\beta \in {H}_{m - q}\left( X\right) \) . Then\n\n\[{\phi }_{X}\left( {{f}^{!}\alpha ,\beta }\right) = {\phi }_{Y}\left( {\alpha ,{f}_{ * }\beta }\right)\]\n\n( \( {\phi }_{X} \) and \( {\phi }_{Y} \) denote the inters...
Proof.\n\n\[{\phi }_{X}\left( {{f}^{!}\alpha ,\beta }\right) = {\phi }_{X}\left( {D{f}^{ * }{D}^{-1}\alpha ,\beta }\right) = \left\langle {{f}^{ * }{D}^{-1}\alpha ,\beta }\right\rangle\]\n\n\[= \left\langle {{D}^{-1}\alpha ,{f}_{ * }\beta }\right\rangle = {\phi }_{Y}\left( {\alpha ,{f}_{ * }\beta }\right) .\]\n\nBy par...
Yes
Proposition 2. Let \( X, Y \) be compact oriented homological manifolds, and let \( p : X \times \) \( Y \rightarrow Y \) be the projection. Then, for any \( \alpha \in {H}_{m}\left( Y\right) \) , \[ {p}^{!}\alpha = \left\lbrack X\right\rbrack \times \alpha \]
Proof. Let \( \alpha = {D\gamma },\gamma \in {H}^{n - m}\left( {Y;\mathbb{Z}}\right) \) . Then \[ {p}^{!}\alpha = {D}_{X \times Y}{p}^{ * }\gamma = {D}_{X \times Y}\left( {1 \times \gamma }\right) = {D}_{X}1 \times {D}_{Y}\gamma = \left\lbrack X\right\rbrack \times \alpha . \]
Yes
Proposition 3. Let \( X, Y \) be connected compact oriented manifolds of the same dimension \( n \), and let \( f : X \rightarrow Y \) be a continuous map of degree \( d \) . Then the compositions\n\n\[ \n\\begin{matrix} {H}_{m}\left( Y\right) \\xrightarrow[]{{f}^{!}}{H}_{m}\left( X\right) \\xrightarrow[]{{f}_{ * }}{H}...
Here is a proof of the first statement. Let \( \\alpha \\in {H}_{m}\left( Y\\right) ,\\alpha = {D}_{Y}\\gamma ,\\gamma \\in {H}^{n - m}\left( {Y;\\mathbb{Z}}\\right) \) . Then \( {f}_{ * }{f}^{!}\\alpha = {f}_{ * }{D}_{X}{f}^{ * }\\gamma = {f}_{ * }\\left( {\\left\\lbrack X\\right\\rbrack \\frown {f}^{ * }\\gamma }\\ri...
Yes
Theorem 1. Let \( {Y}_{1},{Y}_{2} \) be closed oriented submanifolds of a smooth closed oriented manifold \( X \) transverse to each other; the latter means that the inclusion map \( {i}_{1} \) of \( {Y}_{1} \) in \( X \) is transversely regular to \( {Y}_{2} \) . Then the intersection \( Z = {Y}_{1} \cap {Y}_{2} = {i}...
Proof of Theorem 1. \[ D\left( {{\alpha }_{1} \smile {\alpha }_{2}}\right) = \left\lbrack X\right\rbrack \frown \left( {{\alpha }_{1} \smile {\alpha }_{2}}\right) = \left( {\left\lbrack X\right\rbrack \frown {\alpha }_{1}}\right) \frown {\alpha }_{2} = \left( {D{\alpha }_{1}}\right) \frown {\alpha }_{2} \] \[ = {i}_{1}...
Yes
Proposition 2. Poincaré isomorphisms described above, together with Poincaré's isomorphisms for the manifold \( \partial X \), form an isomorphism between homology and cohomology sequences of the pair \( \left( {X,\partial X}\right) \) ; more precisely, there arises a plus-minus commutative diagram\n\n\[ \cdots \;{H}_{...
Proof. We will prove the plus-minus commutativity of the first square; for the third square the proof is more or less the same, while the commutativity of the second square is obvious.\n\nTake a \( c \in {C}^{n - m}\left( {\partial X;G}\right) \) and extend it to \( \widetilde{c} \in {C}^{n - m}\left( {X;G}\right) \) ....
Yes
Theorem 1. The obstruction cochain is a cocycle: \( \delta {c}_{f} = 0 \) .
Proof. The statement may be regarded as a variation on the theme of \( \partial \partial = 0 \) [we need to prove that \( {c}_{f}\left( {\partial a}\right) = 0 \), but the cochain \( {c}_{f} \) itself is defined by means of boundaries], but the accurate proof requires some work. For example, it can be deduced from the ...
Yes
Lemma 1. For any continuous map \( f : {X}^{n} \rightarrow Y \) and any cochain \( d \in {\mathcal{C}}^{n}\left( {X;{\pi }_{n}\left( Y\right) }\right) \) , there exists a continuous map \( g : {X}^{n} \rightarrow Y \) which agrees with \( f \) on \( {X}^{n - 1} \) and is such that \( {d}_{f, g} = d \) .
Proof. Consider an \( n \) -dimensional cell \( e \) of \( X \) and distinguish a small ball in \( e \) . Than change the map \( f \) on this ball in such a way that the two maps of the ball, the old one and the new one, compose a spheroid of the class \( d\left( e\right) \) (see Fig. 74). Having such a change made on ...
No
Lemma 2. \( \delta {d}_{f, g} = {c}_{g} - {c}_{f} \) .
Proof. Consider, for simplicity’s sake, the case when \( f \) and \( g \) are different on only one \( n \) -dimensional cell \( e \subset X \) (the general case, essentially, is not different from this case). Let \( \sigma \) be an \( \left( {n + 1}\right) \) -dimensional cell of \( X \) ; we want to show that\n\n\[ \...
Yes
Corollary 1. A CW complex of the type \( K\left( {\pi, n}\right) \) is homotopically unique. Hence, a topological space of the type \( K\left( {\pi, n}\right) \) is weakly homotopically unique.
Proof. Let \( X,{X}^{\prime } \) be CW complexes of the type \( K\left( {\pi, n}\right) \), and let \( {F}_{\pi }\; \in \) \( {H}^{n}\left( {X;\pi }\right) ,{F}_{\pi }^{\prime } \in {H}^{n}\left( {{X}^{\prime };\pi }\right) \) be the fundamental classes. According to the theorem, there exist continuous maps \( f : X \r...
Yes
Theorem 1 (Hopf). For every \( n \) -dimensional CW complex \( X \), there is a bijection\n\n\[ \n{H}^{n}\left( {X;\mathbb{Z}}\right) \leftrightarrow \pi \left( {X,{S}^{n}}\right) ,\left\lbrack f\right\rbrack \mapsto {f}^{ * }\left( s\right) ,\n\]\n\nwhere \( s = 1 \in \mathbb{Z} = {H}^{n}\left( {{S}^{n};\mathbb{Z}}\ri...
Proof. This classical theorem (proved, actually, before the appearance of not only the obstruction theory, but also cohomology) is, from a modern point of view, a corollary of the theorem in Sect. 18.3. Indeed, the construction of the space\n\n![ca3d23e8-d3f0-4fbc-a946-2e04586ccbf2_277_0.jpg](images/ca3d23e8-d3f0-4fbc-...
Yes
Theorem 2 (Hopf). Let an n-dimensional CW complex \( X \) contain as a CW sub-complex a sphere \( {S}^{n - 1} \) . This sphere is a retract of \( X \) if and only if the inclusion homomorphism \( {H}^{n - 1}\left( {X;\mathbb{Z}}\right) \rightarrow {H}^{n - 1}\left( {{S}^{n - 1};\mathbb{Z}}\right) \) is an epimorphism.
Proof. The only if part is obvious: If \( r : X \rightarrow {S}^{n - 1} \) is a retraction, then the composition\n\n\[ \n{H}^{n - 1}\left( {{S}^{n - 1};\mathbb{Z}}\right) \overset{{r}^{ * }}{ \rightarrow }{H}^{n - 1}\left( {X;\mathbb{Z}}\right) \overset{{j}^{ * }}{ \rightarrow }{H}^{n - 1}\left( {{S}^{n - 1};\mathbb{Z}...
Yes
Proposition 1. Let \( {\pi }_{0}\left( F\right) = {\pi }_{1}\left( F\right) = \cdots = {\pi }_{n - 1}\left( F\right) = 0 \), and let \( s,{s}^{\prime } : {B}^{n} \rightarrow E \) be two sections. Then \( {C}_{s} = {C}_{{s}^{\prime }} \in {H}^{n + 1}\left( {B;{\pi }_{n}\left( F\right) }\right) \) .
Proof of Proposition 1. It is clear that a homotopy of a section \( s : {B}^{k} \rightarrow E \) will not affect either \( {c}_{s} \) or \( {C}_{s} \) . Suppose that the given sections \( s,{s}^{\prime } \) are homotopic over \( {B}^{k} \) for some \( k,0 \leq k < n - 1 \) (since the fiber \( F \) is connected, this is...
Yes
Proposition 2. \( \left\langle {C\left( {\tau }_{X}\right) ,\left\lbrack X\right\rbrack }\right\rangle = \chi \left( X\right) \) .
Proof. A section of the fibration \( {\tau }_{X} \) is the same as a nowhere vanishing vector field on \( X \) . It is easy to understand that a generic vector field on \( X \) has only isolated zeroes. Take a local coordinate system with the origin at the isolated zero \( {x}_{0} \) of a vector field \( \xi \), take a...
Yes
Theorem 3. Let \( \\xi \) be an n-dimensional real vector bundle with a CW base. Then\n\n\[ \n{w}_{i}\\left( {{S}^{r}\\xi }\\right) = {G}_{n;r;i}\\left( {{w}_{1}\\left( \\xi \\right) ,{w}_{2}\\left( \\xi \\right) ,\\ldots }\\right) ; \n\]\n\nin particular,\n\n\[ \n{w}_{1}\\left( {{S}^{r}\\xi }\\right) = \\left( \\begin...
The proof of Theorem 3 is so close to the proof of Theorem 2 that we do not feel any necessity in detailing it [just mention that it is based on the relation \( {S}^{r}\\xi = \)\n\n\( \\bigoplus \\;\\left( {{\\zeta }_{{j}_{1}} \\otimes \\cdots \\otimes {\\zeta }_{{j}_{r}}}\\right) \\rbrack . \)\n\n\( 1 \\leq {j}_{1} \\...
No
Theorem (Cartan-Serre). Let \( X \) be a simply connected space with finitely generated homology groups. Suppose that the rational cohomology of \( X \) is a free skew-commutative algebra,\n\n\[ \n{H}^{ * }\left( {X;\mathbb{Q}}\right) = {\Lambda }_{\mathbb{Q}}\left( {{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{m}}\right) \otimes \mathbb{Q}\l...
Proof of Theorem. Since \( {H}^{ * }\left( {X;\mathbb{Q}}\right) = {H}^{ * }\left( {X;\mathbb{Z}}\right) \otimes \mathbb{Q} \) and the homology groups of \( X \) are finitely generated, there exist nonzero integers \( {a}_{1},\ldots ,{a}_{m},{b}_{1},\ldots ,{b}_{\ell } \) such that the classes \( {a}_{1}{x}_{1},\ldots ...
Yes
Corollary 2 (The Stiefel Theorem). Every closed orientable three-dimensional manifold is parallelizable.
Proof. To prove that a closed orientable three-dimensional manifold \( X \) is parallelizable, it is sufficient to construct two linearly independent (at every point) vector fields on \( X \), that is, to construct a section of the fibration \( E\xrightarrow[]{\;V\left( {3,2}\right) }X \) associated with the tangent bu...
Yes
Lemma 1. The group \( {\operatorname{comp}}_{\bar{p}}{\pi }_{N + q}\left( {X\left( s\right) }\right) \) does not depend on \( s \) .
Proof. According to Sect. 34.1, there is a fibration \( X\left( s\right) \overset{X\left( {s + 1}\right) }{ \rightarrow }{Y}_{s} \) . Since the base of this fibration is a product of spaces of the type \( K\left( {{\mathbb{Z}}_{p}, m}\right) \), the homotopy groups of the base have no nontrivial non- \( p \) -component...
Yes
For \( q < n \), there exists an \( {s}_{0} \) such that\n\n\[{\operatorname{comp}}_{p}{\pi }_{N + q}\left( {X\left( s\right) }\right) = 0\]\n\nfor \( s > {s}_{0} \) .
Proof. Let \( m \) be a smallest integer \( < n \) for which\n\n\[{\operatorname{comp}}_{p}{H}_{N + m}\left( {X\left( s\right) }\right) \neq 0.\]\n\nThen \( m \) is also the smallest integer \( < n \) for which\n\n\[{\operatorname{comp}}_{p}{\pi }_{N + m}\left( {X\left( s\right) }\right) \neq 0\]\n\n(strictly speaking,...
Yes
Lemma 3. Let \( q < n \) . (1). If \( 0 \leq s < {s}^{\prime } \), then \( {\pi }_{N + q}\left( {X\left( s\right), X\left( {s}^{\prime }\right) }\right) \) is a p-group. (2). If \( {s}^{\prime } \) is sufficiently large, then \( {\pi }_{N + q}\left( {X\left( s\right), X\left( {s}^{\prime }\right) }\right) = {\operatorn...
Proof. The statement follows from Lemmas 1 and 2 and the exactness of the homotopy sequence\n\n\[ \n{\pi }_{N + q}\left( {X\left( {s}^{\prime }\right) }\right) \rightarrow {\pi }_{N + q}\left( {X\left( s\right) }\right) \rightarrow {\pi }_{N + q}\left( {X\left( s\right), X\left( {s}^{\prime }\right) }\right) \n\]\n\n\[...
Yes
Proposition 1. The two definitions of \( \circ \) are equivalent.
Proof. The map \( {\left( -1\right) }^{Nk}\left( {a\# b}\right) = \left( {{\left( -1\right) }^{Nk}a}\right) \# b : {S}^{N + k}\# {S}^{N + \ell } \rightarrow {S}^{N}\# {S}^{N} \) can be presented as a composition of two maps, ![ca3d23e8-d3f0-4fbc-a946-2e04586ccbf2_474_0.jpg](images/ca3d23e8-d3f0-4fbc-a946-2e04586ccbf2_4...
Yes
Proposition 2. The composition product is skew-commutative, that is, \( \beta \circ \alpha = \) \( {\left( -1\right) }^{k\ell }\alpha \circ \beta \) .
Proof. Let \( a : {S}^{N + k} \rightarrow {S}^{N} \) and \( b : {S}^{N + \ell } \rightarrow {S}^{N} \) be spheroids of classes \( \alpha \) and \( \beta \) . There is an obvious homotopy commutative diagram\n\n![ca3d23e8-d3f0-4fbc-a946-2e04586ccbf2_475_0.jpg](images/ca3d23e8-d3f0-4fbc-a946-2e04586ccbf2_475_0.jpg)\n\nBy...
Yes
Proposition 3. The composition product is distributive:\n\n\[ \left( {\beta + \gamma }\right) \circ \alpha = \beta \circ \alpha + \gamma \circ \alpha ;\alpha \circ \left( {\beta + \gamma }\right) = \alpha \circ \beta + \alpha \circ \gamma . \]
Proof. Since we have already proven that the composition product is skew-commutative, it is sufficient to prove any one of these formulas, and we will prove the second one. Actually, we will prove a stronger statement, namely, that for any \( \beta ,\gamma \in {\pi }_{m}\left( {S}^{n}\right) \) and \( \alpha \in {\pi }...
Yes
Proposition 1. (i) For any virtual vector bundle \( \alpha \in K\\left( X\\right) \) there exist a usual vector bundle a and an integer \( N \) such that \( \alpha = \\{ a - N\\} \) . (Recall that in the theory of vector bundles \( N \) denotes the standard trivial vector bundle of dimension \( N, X \times {\\mathbb{C}...
Proof of Proposition. (i) Let \( \\alpha = \\{ c - d\\} \), and let \( \\bar{d} \) be a bundle such that \( d \oplus \\bar{d} = N \) . Then the virtual bundle \( \\{ c - d\\} \) is equivalent to \( \\{ \\left( {c \oplus \\bar{d}}\\right) - \\left( {d \oplus \\bar{d}}\\right) \\} = \\{ a - N\\} \), where \( a = c \oplus...
Yes
This is an epimorphism whose kernel is the group \( {S}^{1} \subset {\operatorname{Spin}}^{\mathbb{C}}\left( {2n}\right) \) of multiplication by complex numbers of absolute value 1 . The group \( {\operatorname{Spin}}^{\mathbb{C}}\left( {2n}\right) \) is precisely \( {\tau }^{-1}\left( {{SO}\left( {2n}\right) }\right) ...
Obviously, \( {\varphi }_{v} \in {\operatorname{Pin}}^{\mathbb{C}}\left( {2n}\right) - {\operatorname{Spin}}^{\mathbb{C}}\left( {2n}\right) \) for any unit vector \( v \in {\mathbb{C}}^{n} \) . Furthermore, \( \tau \left( {\varphi }_{v}\right) \) is in this case the reflection of \( {\mathbb{C}}^{n} \) in the real hype...
No
Proposition 2. \( {\Lambda }^{\text{even }}{\mathbb{C}}^{n} \) and \( {\Lambda }^{\text{odd }}{\mathbb{C}}^{n} \) are isomorphic as representations of the group \( {\operatorname{Spin}}^{\mathbb{C}}\left( {{2n} - 2}\right) \subset {\operatorname{Spin}}^{\mathbb{C}}\left( {2n}\right) \) .
Proof. The embedding \( {\operatorname{Spin}}^{\mathbb{C}}\left( {{2n} - 2}\right) \rightarrow {\operatorname{Spin}}^{\mathbb{C}}\left( {2n}\right) \) is induced by the embedding \( {\mathbb{C}}^{n - 1} \rightarrow {\mathbb{C}}^{n} \) . Let \( v \in {\mathbb{C}}^{n} \) be a unit vector orthogonal to \( {\mathbb{C}}^{n ...
Yes
Proposition 3. If \( n > 1 \), then\n\n\[ \n{H}^{1}\left( {{\operatorname{Spin}}^{\mathbb{C}}\left( {2n}\right) ;\mathbb{Z}}\right) = \mathbb{Z};{H}^{2}\left( {{\operatorname{Spin}}^{\mathbb{C}}\left( {2n}\right) ;\mathbb{Z}}\right) = 0.\n\]
Proof of Proposition 3. The fibration \( {\operatorname{Spin}}^{\mathbb{C}}\left( {2n}\right) \rightarrow {SO}\left( {2n}\right) \) is simple since its fibers have canonical orientations as cosets of the group \( {S}^{1} \) . The \( {E}_{2} \) -term of the spectral sequence of this fibration looks like\n\n<table><tr><t...
Yes
Proposition 5. \( {H}^{ * }\left( {B{\operatorname{Spin}}^{\mathbb{C}}\left( {2n}\right) }\right) \) is the ring of polynomials of the following variables: \( c\left( {\dim c = 2}\right) ,{p}_{1},\ldots ,{p}_{n}\left( {\dim {p}_{i} = {4i}}\right) ,\chi \left( {\dim \chi = {2n}}\right) \) . Thus, rational characteristic...
The first statement follows from the spectral sequence of the fibration\n\n\[ \nB{\operatorname{Spin}}^{\mathbb{C}}\xrightarrow[]{K\left( {\mathbb{Z},2}\right) }{BSO}\left( {2n}\right) \n\]\n\nand the computation of the rational cohomology of the space \( {BSO}\left( {2n}\right) \) from Lecture 19. The rest of Proposit...
No
Theorem 2. Let \( \varphi : {H}^{n}\left( {{BO}\left( N\right) ;{\mathbb{Z}}_{2}}\right) \rightarrow {\mathbb{Z}}_{2} \) be a homomorphism. There exists a smooth closed \( n \) -dimensional manifold \( M \) such that for every \( \alpha \in {H}^{n}\left( {{BO}\left( N\right) ;{\mathbb{Z}}_{2}}\right) \) , \n\n\[ \n\lef...
(The reader can prove this theorem for an exercise or find the proof in Stong's book.)
No
Theorem 3. \( {\Omega }_{ * }^{SO} \otimes \mathbb{Q} \) is the ring of polynomials (over \( \mathbb{Q} \) ) of variables of degree \( {4i} \) . More precisely: The homomorphism \( {\Omega }^{SO} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}\left\lbrack {{t}_{1},{t}_{2},\ldots }\right\rbrack ,\deg \left( {t}_{i}\right) = {4i} \) determined b...
A proof of Theorem 3 is relatively simple: It is based on Cartan-Serre's theorem (Sect. 26.4). First of all, we already know that\n\n\[ \operatorname{rank}{H}_{s}\left( {{BSO}\left( N\right) }\right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l} 0,\;\text{ if }s\text{ is not divisible by }4, \\ \text{ the number of partitions of }t \\ \t...
Yes
Theorem 4 (Milnor, Averbuch). The ring \( {\Omega }_{ * }^{SO} \) does not have elements of an odd order.
The most elegant proof of this result uses the Adams spectral sequence modulo an odd prime.
No
Theorem 10 (Milnor, Novikov). The ring \( {\Omega }_{ * }^{U} \) is isomorphic to the ring of integral polynomials of generators of dimension \( {2i}, i = 1,2,\ldots \) The generators are represented by some complex projective algebraic manifolds.
Notice that after a tensor multiplication by \( \mathbb{Q} \), this theorem becomes a corollary of the Cartan-Serre theorem (compare with Theorem 3). Moreover, Theorem 10 shows that the Chern numbers fully determine the class of a stably almost complex manifold in \( {\Omega }_{ * }^{U} \).
No
Theorem 1.2 (Hölder’s inequality) Let \( \Omega \) be a measurable set in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \), either bounded or unbounded. If \( u \in {L}^{p}\left( \Omega \right) \) and \( v \in {L}^{q}\left( \Omega \right) \), where\n\n\[ \frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{q} = 1,\;1 \leq p, q \leq \infty ,\]\n\nthen \( {uv} \in {L}^{1}\lef...
The Hölder inequality can be used in any domain since its proof is just a simple application of Young's inequality\n\n\[ {ab} \leq \frac{{a}^{p}}{p} + \frac{{b}^{q}}{q}\;\text{ for }\;\frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{q} = 1,\;1 \leq p, q \leq \infty \]\n\n(1.5)\n\n(see Exercise 1.1 for a proof of (1.5)).
No
Theorem 1.16 Let \( \Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^{3} \) be a smooth bounded domain. For each \( k \in \mathbb{N} \) there exists a linear operator \( {E}_{k} : {H}^{k}\left( \Omega \right) \rightarrow {H}^{k}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{3}\right) \) and a constant \( {C}_{k} \) such that\n\n(i) \( {\left. {E}_{k}u\right| }_{\Om...
Proof We prove only the remark about the uniformity for domains \( {R\Omega } \), where \( R \geq 1 \) ; for the construction of an extension operator see Adams &Fournier (2003), Constantin & Foias (1988), Evans (1998), Robinson (2001), or Stein (1970), among others. Suppose that we have an extension operator for \( {H...
Yes
Lemma 1.17 (Sobolev interpolation inequality on \( \Omega \) ) Let \( s,{s}_{1},{s}_{2} \in \mathbb{N} \) with \( 0 \leq {s}_{1} \leq s \leq {s}_{2} \), and choose \( \theta \in \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \) such that \( s = \theta {s}_{1} + \left( {1 - \theta }\right) {s}_{2} \) . Then for any \( u \in {H}^{{s}_{...
Proof Use Theorem 1.16 to extend \( u \) to a function \( {E}_{{s}_{2}}\left\lbrack u\right\rbrack \in {H}^{{s}_{2}}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) such that\n\n\[ {\begin{Vmatrix}{E}_{{s}_{2}}\left\lbrack u\right\rbrack \end{Vmatrix}}_{{H}^{{s}_{2}}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) } \leq {C}_{{s}_{2}}\parallel u{\para...
Yes
Lemma 1.27 If \( X \) is a reflexive Banach space and \( u \in {L}^{1}\left( {0, T;X}\right) \) then there exists a unique \( g \in X \) such that\n\n\[ \langle f, g\rangle = {\int }_{0}^{T}\langle f, u\left( s\right) \rangle \mathrm{d}s \] \n\nfor any \( f \in {X}^{ * } \) . In this case we define\n\n\[ {\int }_{0}^{T...
Proof Define a map \( \Gamma : {X}^{ * } \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) by setting\n\n\[ \Gamma \left( f\right) = {\int }_{0}^{T}\langle f, u\left( s\right) \rangle \mathrm{d}s \] \n\nfor each \( f \in {X}^{ * } \) . This mapping \( \Gamma \) is clearly linear, and it is bounded since\n\n\[ \left| {\Gamma \left( f\right) }\...
Yes
Lemma 1.28 If \( B \) is a countable orthonormal basis of a Hilbert space \( H \) then the set\n\n\[ \nX = \\left\\{ {u : u = \\mathop{\\sum }\\limits_{{j = 1}}^{N}{c}_{j}\\left( t\\right) {v}_{j}, N \\in \\mathbb{N},{c}_{j} \\in {C}^{\\infty }\\left( \\left\\lbrack {0, T}\\right\\rbrack \\right) ,{v}_{j} \\in B}\\righ...
Proof Take any \( u \\in {L}^{2}\\left( {0, T;H}\\right) \) and choose \( \\delta > 0 \) . Define\n\n\[ \n{c}_{k}\\left( t\\right) = {\\left\\langle u\\left( t\\right) ,{v}_{k}\\right\\rangle }_{H}\\;\\text{ and }\\;{u}_{N} = \\mathop{\\sum }\\limits_{{j = 1}}^{N}{c}_{j}\\left( t\\right) {v}_{j}.\n\]\n\nThen\n\n\[ \n\\...
Yes
Corollary 1.32 Suppose that \( u, g \in {L}^{1}\left( {0, T;X}\right) \) and that for every \( f \in {X}^{ * } \)\n\n\[ \left\langle {f, u\left( {t}_{2}\right) }\right\rangle - \left\langle {f, u\left( {t}_{1}\right) }\right\rangle = {\int }_{{t}_{1}}^{{t}_{2}}\langle f, g\left( s\right) \rangle \mathrm{d}s \]\n\n(1.29...
Proof It follows from (1.29) that \( \langle f, u\left( t\right) \rangle \) is absolutely continuous and almost everywhere differentiable with derivative \( \langle f, g\left( t\right) \rangle \) . By assumption \( \langle f, u\left( t\right) \rangle \) and \( \langle f, g\left( t\right) \rangle \) are both elements of...
Yes
Theorem 1.33 If \( u \in {L}^{2}\left( {0, T;{H}_{0}^{1}}\right) \) and \( {\partial }_{t}u \in {L}^{2}\left( {0, T;{H}^{-1}}\right) \) then we have \( u \in {C}^{0}\left( {\left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack ;{L}^{2}}\right) \) with\n\n\[ \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{t \in \left\lbrack {0, T}\right\rbrack }}\parallel u\left( ...
For the proof of the result in this form see Lemma 10.4 in Renardy & Rogers (2004), for example. A more general version can be found in Chapter 7 of Roubíček (2013).
No