A remark on the Mayer-Vietoris double complex for singular cohomology
Algebraic Topology
2019-12-18 v1 Geometric Topology
Abstract
Given an open cover of a paracompact topological space X, there are two natural ways to construct a map from the cohomology of the nerve of the cover to the cohomology of X. One of them is based on a partition of unity, and is more topological in nature, while the other one relies on the Mayer-Vietoris double complex, and has a more algebraic flavour. In this paper we prove that these two maps coincide, thus answering a question posed by N. V. Ivanov.
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@article{arxiv.1912.07736,
title = {A remark on the Mayer-Vietoris double complex for singular cohomology},
author = {Roberto Frigerio and Andrea Maffei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.07736},
year = {2019}
}
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