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TauCeti.AlgebraicTopology.Singular.Subdivision.Small.Homotopy

Subdivision and its homotopy on small singular chains #

Barycentric subdivision and its prism operator preserve chains subordinate to any family of subsets: every simplex they produce factors through the original singular simplex. This file restricts both operators to the small-chain complex and proves the homotopy formula there. Thus subdivision induces the identity on small-chain homology as well as ordinary homology. This is needed when replacing a bounding chain by a sufficiently fine subdivision while keeping the correction to its already-small boundary inside the small-chain complex.

The restricted operators commute with the inclusion and with maps of covered spaces. No openness or covering hypothesis is needed for these preservation statements.

References #

Barycentric subdivision restricted to small singular chains in degree n.

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    Barycentric subdivision as an endomorphism of the small-chain complex.

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      The prism operator of subdivision restricted to small singular chains.

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        Subdivision of small singular chains is chain homotopic to their identity map.

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          The restricted subdivision commutes with maps carrying cover members into cover members.

          The restricted prism commutes with maps carrying cover members into cover members.

          The restricted prism commutes with maps carrying cover members into cover members.