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Degenerate bar chains are contractible

Statement

The degenerate bar chains form a contractible subcomplex of the unnormalized bar complex.

Proof

Given: The span $D$ of homogeneous bars with two consecutive equal vertices.

1.1given

A face of a tuple with $g_{i} = g_{i + 1}$ is again degenerate, except for the two faces deleting $g_{i}$ or $g_{i + 1}$ ; those give the same remaining tuple with opposite signs. Hence $d D \subseteq D$ .

2.1step 1.1∎

Filter $D_{n}$ by the least index at which two consecutive vertices agree. On each successive quotient, the signed degeneracy that repeats the vertex at that index contracts the quotient; the simplicial identities give $s d + d s = 1$ . Combining these homotopies along the finite filtration $0 \leq i < n$ gives a contraction of $D$ .

Depends on

Used by

Normalized and unnormalized bars are homotopy equivalent Theorem

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Sources

Weibel, §6.5 (standard reference, not scraped)