Attaching cells to a CW complex gives a CW complex #
Let c : TopCat.RelativeCWComplex f be a categorical relative CW complex, so that Y is obtained
from X by attaching cells along f : X ⟶ Y, and let X carry a classical CW structure. If all
the cells of X have dimension less than some N, and c attaches no cells of dimension less
than N, then Y is a CW complex (TopCat.RelativeCWComplex.cwComplexTrans) when it is
Hausdorff. Its m-cells are the m-cells of X, included by f, together with the cells that
c attaches in dimension m (TopCat.RelativeCWComplex.cwComplexTransCellEquiv).
The structure combines the classical relative structure c.toRelCWComplex with the CW structure of
X carried to the range of the closed embedding f, by composing relative CW complexes
(TauCeti.relCWComplexTrans). The condition on dimensions guarantees the compatibility that
composition needs: the boundary of an attached m-cell meets the range of f inside its skeleton
below dimension m, which is all of it.
This is how spaces built from a CW complex by attaching cells of higher dimension, such as a presentation complex built from a wedge of circles, or the colimit of a tower of cell attachments killing homotopy groups, are read as CW complexes.
Main definitions #
TopCat.RelativeCWComplex.cwComplexTrans: the CW structure onY.TopCat.RelativeCWComplex.cwComplexTransCellEquiv: itsm-cells are them-cells ofXand the cells attached in dimensionm.
Main results #
TopCat.RelativeCWComplex.coe_map_cwComplexTransCellEquiv_symm_inl,TopCat.RelativeCWComplex.map_cwComplexTransCellEquiv_symm_inr: the characteristic maps.
References #
- A. Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Chapter 0 for CW complexes built by attaching cells inductively.
Attaching cells to a CW complex gives a CW complex. If X is a CW complex all of whose
cells have dimension less than N, and the relative CW complex c attaches no cells of dimension
less than N, then the Hausdorff space Y is a CW complex. Its m-cells are the m-cells of
X, included by f, together with the cells attached in dimension m
(TopCat.RelativeCWComplex.cwComplexTransCellEquiv).
Instances For
The m-cells of TopCat.RelativeCWComplex.cwComplexTrans are the m-cells of X together
with the cells attached in dimension m.
Instances For
The characteristic map of an m-cell of X, as a cell of
TopCat.RelativeCWComplex.cwComplexTrans, is its characteristic map in X followed by f.
The characteristic map of a cell attached in dimension m, as a cell of
TopCat.RelativeCWComplex.cwComplexTrans, is the inclusion of the attached disk, read on the
closed unit ball of the sup norm through the radial homeomorphism
TauCeti.diskHomeomorphClosedBall.