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Mayer-Vietoris sequence for differentiable/diffeological spaces

Algebraic Topology 2015-12-07 v2

Abstract

The idea of a space with smooth structure is a generalization of an idea of a manifold. K. T. Chen introduced such a space as a differentiable space in his study of a loop space to employ the idea of iterated path integrals \cite{Chen:73,Chen:75,Chen:77,Chen:86}. Following the pattern established by Chen, J. M. Souriau \cite{Souriau:80} introduced his version of a space with smooth structure, which is called a diffeological space. These notions are strong enough to include all the topological spaces. However, if one tries to show de Rham theorem, he must encounter a difficulty to obtain a partition of unity and thus the Mayer-Vietoris exact sequence in general. In this paper, we introduce a new version of differential forms to obtain a partition of unity, the Mayer-Vietoris exact sequence and a version of de Rham theorem in general. In addition, if we restrict ourselves to consider only CW complexes, we obtain de Rham theorem for a genuine de Rham complex, and hence the genuine de Rham cohomology coincides with the ordinary cohomology for a CW complex.

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@article{arxiv.1511.06948,
  title  = {Mayer-Vietoris sequence for differentiable/diffeological spaces},
  author = {Norio Iwase and Nobuyuki Izumida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.06948},
  year   = {2015}
}

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27 pages

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