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Volume 186, No. 2, (1998), 369-396
Andreas Zastrow
On the (Non)-Coincidence of Milnor-Thurston Homology Theory with Singular Homology Theory
Abstract:
The paper investigates a homology theory based on the ideas of Milnor
and Thurston that by considering measures on the set of all singular
simplices one should get alternate possibilities for describing the
cycles of classical homology theory. It suggests slight changes to
Milnor's and Thurston's original definitions (giving differences for
wild topological spaces only) which ensure that their homology theory
is well-defined on all topological spaces. It further proves that
Milnor-Thurston homology theory gives the same homology groups as the
singular homology theory with real coefficients for all triangulable
spaces.
An example showing that the coincidence between
these both homology theories does not hold for all topological spaces
is also included.
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