Algebraic topology

Adam Marsh

Chapter 5 in Evaluating Country Risks for International Investments:Tools, Techniques and Applications, 2018, pp 67-81 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Algebraic topology is concerned with characterizing spaces. The main tools used to do this, called homotopy groups and homology groups, measure the “holes” of a space, and so are invariant under homotopy equivalence. More precisely, these objects are functors from the category of spaces and continuous maps to that of groups and homomorphisms…

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JEL-codes: F30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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