Cohomology of Manifolds and Groups

This course is a sequel to `Introduction to Algebraic Topology'

  • Review of singular homology; Cohomology groups; Cup and Cap products.
  • CW complexes, Homotopy groups and Hurewicz theorem.
  • Whitehead's theorem , obstruction theory for CW complexes
  • Poincare duality and other duality theorems, Applications.
  • Homological Algebra: Free and Projective resolutions, cohomology and homology groups of a module.
  • Cohomology of groups and applications: cohomological dimension, group actions on spheres.
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