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Augmentation and reduced simplicial homology

Definition

For a simplicial complex $K$ , the augmentation $ε : C_{0} (K) \to Z$ is the homomorphism determined by $ε ([v]) = 1$ for every vertex $v$ .

The augmented simplicial chain complex is $\dots \to C_{2} (K) \overset{\partial_{2}}{\to} C_{1} (K) \overset{\partial_{1}}{\to} C_{0} (K) \overset{ε}{\to} Z \to 0.$ Its homology groups are the reduced simplicial homology groups ${\tilde{H}}_{n}^{s i m p} (K)$ .

If $K$ has no vertices, then $C_{n} (K) = 0$ for all $n \geq 0$ , so ${\tilde{H}}_{- 1}^{s i m p} (K) ≅ Z$ and ${\tilde{H}}_{n}^{s i m p} (K) = 0$ for $n \neq - 1$ .

Depends on

Used by

A simplex has zero reduced simplicial homology Corollary
A contractible simplicial cone Example
The simplicial homology of a point and an edge Example
The augmented simplicial chain complex of a simplex is contractible Lemma
The simplicial augmentation is a chain map Lemma

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Sources

Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology (standard reference, not scraped)
Vidit Nanda, Computational Algebraic Topology, Lecture 03: Homology (standard reference, not scraped)