The topics are divided into two modules:
- General Topology
- Topological spaces, open and closed sets, continuous maps, homeomorphism.
- Connected, path connected, and locally connected spaces. Connected subspaces of \(\mathbb{R}\).
- Compact and locally compact spaces. Compact subspaces of \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Compactness in metric spaces.
- Countability axioms.
- Separation axioms. The Urysohn Lemma.
- The Urysohn Metrization Theorem.
- The Tychonoff Theorem.
- The Stone-Cech compactification.
- Complete metric spaces. Contraction theorem.
- Functional spaces and their topologies. The Arzela-Ascolli Theorem.
- The Baire property and the Baire Theorem.
- Algebraic Topology
- Homotopy and homotopy type. Deformation retracts and deformation retractions. Contractible spaces.
- The fundamental group. The fundamental groups of the circle. A topological proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
- The Seifert-van Kampen Theorem.
- Surfaces and their fundamental groups.
- Covering spaces.
- Exact sequences, 5-lemma. Homology groups, homology exact sequence. Homotopy invariance of homology groups. Excision.
- Homology groups of \(n\)-dimensional sphere. The Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem. The degree of a map \(S^n \to S^n\). Vector fields on \(S^n\).
- The Euler characteristic. Lefschetz Fixed Point Theorem
- Cohomology. The cup product and the cap product. The Borsuk-Ulam Theorem.
- The Universal Coefficient theorem.
- Universal Coefficient Formula, The Künneth Formula.
- Manifolds. Orientation. Homology and cohomology of manifolds. Poincaré Duality. The degree of a map.
Literature:
- J. Munkres, Topology, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall
- A. Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Cambridge University Press;
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(posted March 19, 2014)