Description: Syzygies and Homotopy Theory Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): F.E.A. Johnson Format: Hardback Publisher: Springer London Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Springer London Ltd ISBN-13: 9781447122937, 978-1447122937 Synopsis The most important invariant of a topological space is its fundamental group. When this is trivial, the resulting homotopy theory is well researched and familiar. In the general case, however, homotopy theory over nontrivial fundamental groups is much more problematic and far less well understood. Syzygies and Homotopy Theory explores the problem of nonsimply connected homotopy in the first nontrivial cases and presents, for the first time, a systematic rehabilitation of Hilbert's method of syzygies in the context of non-simply connected homotopy theory. The first part of the book is theoretical, formulated to allow a general finitely presented group as a fundamental group. The innovation here is to regard syzygies as stable modules rather than minimal modules. Inevitably this forces a reconsideration of the problems of noncancellation; these are confronted in the second, practical, part of the book. In particular, the second part of the book considers how the theory works out in detail for the specific examples Fn F where Fn is a free group of rank n and F is finite. Another innovation is to parametrize the first syzygy in terms of the more familiar class of stably free modules. Furthermore, detailed description of these stably free modules is effected by a suitable modification of the method of Milnor squares. The theory developed within this book has potential applications in various branches of algebra, including homological algebra, ring theory and K-theory. Syzygies and Homotopy Theory will be of interest to researchers and also to graduate students with a background in algebra and algebraic topology.
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Book Title: Syzygies and Homotopy Theory
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Name: Syzygies and Homotopy Theory
Language: English
Publisher: Springer London LTD
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Mathematics
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 647 g
Author: F.E.A. Johnson
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Algebra and Applications
Format: Hardcover
