A refinement of Betti numbers and homology in the presence of a continuous function, I

Burghelea, Dan

doi:10.2140/agt.2017.17.2051

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A refinement of Betti numbers and homology in the presence of a continuous function, I

Dan Burghelea

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 17 (2017) 2051–2080

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2017.17.2051

Abstract

We propose a refinement of the Betti numbers and the homology with coefficients in a field of a compact ANR $X$ , in the presence of a continuous real-valued function on $X$ . The refinement of Betti numbers consists of finite configurations of points with multiplicities in the complex plane whose total cardinalities are the Betti numbers, and the refinement of homology consists of configurations of vector spaces indexed by points in the complex plane, with the same support as the first, whose direct sum is isomorphic to the homology. When the homology is equipped with a scalar product, these vector spaces are canonically realized as mutually orthogonal subspaces of the homology.

The assignments above are in analogy with the collections of eigenvalues and generalized eigenspaces of a linear map in a finite-dimensional complex vector space. A number of remarkable properties of the above configurations are discussed.

Keywords

Betti numbers, homology, bar codes, configurations

Mathematical Subject Classification 2010

Primary: 55N35

Secondary: 46M20, 57R19

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Received: 27 December 2015

Revised: 20 December 2016

Accepted: 8 January 2017

Published: 3 August 2017

Authors

Dan Burghelea
Department of Mathematics The Ohio State University Columbus, OH United States

Volume 17, issue 4 (2017)