Degree zero of the cellular chain complex #
For an absolute CW complex, the first two stages of the skeletal filtration are the empty space and the space of its zero-cells. Thus its degree-zero cellular group is the ordinary zeroth singular homology of the zero-skeleton. The characteristic points of the zero-cells give a bijection with this skeleton.
The comparison uses the natural quotient map from ordinary to relative singular homology. These identifications are the degree-zero starting point for identifying cellular groups with free modules on cells.
The mathematical source is Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Section 2.2. The degree-zero homology
calculation for totally disconnected spaces is Andrew Yang's
AlgebraicTopology.singularHomologyFunctorZeroOfTotallyDisconnectedSpace in Mathlib.
The degree-zero skeletal pair is isomorphic to the zero-skeleton modulo the empty space.
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The degree-zero cellular group is the ordinary zeroth singular homology of the zero-skeleton. The forward map is induced by the quotient from absolute to relative chains.
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The degree-zero cellular group of an absolute CW complex is the coproduct of one copy of the coefficient object for each zero-cell.
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The inverse degree-zero identification sends the generator of a zero-cell to the homology class of its characteristic point in the zero-skeleton, then to the skeletal pair. The middle inverse is Mathlib's identification of zeroth homology of a discrete space with its point basis.