## MAT 540 Advanced Topology, Geometry I, Fall 2020.

• Instructor: Oleg Viro, office 5-110 Math Tower, e-mail: oleg.viro@stonybrook.edu
• Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 11:30am-1:00pm in 5-110 Math Tower or by appointment.
• Grader: Aleksandar Milivojevic Math Tower 3-104 Aleksandar.Milivojevic@stonybrook.edu
• Textbook : Algebraic Topology by Allen Hatcher
• Class meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 9:45-11:05pm, Mathematics P127.

Everyone participating in this class must wear a mask or face covering at all times or have the appropriate documentation for medical exemption. Please contact Student Accessibility Support Center (SASC) at sasc@stonybrook.edu if you need special accommodations. Any student not in compliance with this policy will be asked to leave the class.

• Homework: will be assigned weekly through Blackboard (Assignments). Your solutions should be submitted to Blackboard. Each submission should contain a single pdf-file. You may use any app which consolidate your pictures in a single pdf-file (for example, CamScan). Submission in a wrong format (multiple files, jpg-format, links to the cloud, etc.) will be accepted but with reduced score. Late submission will be accepted but with reduced score.

Homework 1 due by 9/9.

Homework 2 due by 9/9.

Homework 3 due by 9/16.

Homework 4 due by 9/23.

• Quizzes will be given weekly in class.
• Exams: two midterms (in class) and final exam.
The Final Exam will be on Wednesday, December 16, 2:15PM-5:00PM online.
• Grading system: your grade for the course will be based on: homework 15%, quizzes 15%, two midterms 25% each, final exam 20%.

• Content:
1. Homotopy
• Homotopy as a map, as a family of maps and as a relation.
• Relative homotopy.
• Homotopy equivalences and deformation retractions.
2. Natural group structures
• Multiplication of paths and their homotopy classes.
• Homotopy properties of path multiplication.
• Natural group structures on sets of homotopy classes.
3. Homotopy groups
• Fundamental group and high homotopy groups
• Homomorphisms induced by a continuous map.
• Homotopy groups of a product.
• $n$-connectedness.
• Extension of homotopy.
• Dependence of homotopy groups on the base point.
• $n$-simple spaces.
• Relative homotopy groups.
• Homotopy sequences of a pair and of a triple.
4. Bundles
• The language of bundles.
• Fibre bundles.
• Coverings.
• Lifting homotopy property.
• Serre bundles.
• Homotopy sequence of a Serre bundle.
• Calculation of fundamental groups using covering spaces.
• Classification of coverings.
• Automorphisms of a covering.
5. CW-complexes
• Cellular maps
• Cellular approximation theorem.
• Calculation of the fundamental group of a CW-complex.
• Van-Kampen theorem.
• Homotopy classification of 1-dimensional CW-complexes.
• The Euler characteristic.
• Homotopy excision.
• Suspension theorem.
• Stable homotopy groups.
• Simplest calculations of homotopy groups.
• Applications.
6. Manifolds
• Topological manifolds
• Interior and boundary of a manifold.
• Product of manifolds.
• Dimension.
• The boundary of Euclidean half-space.
• One-dimensional manifolds.
• Topological classification of one-dimensional manifolds.
• Triangulated two-dimensional manifolds and their topological classification.

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