Handle homology of manifolds
Abstract
We give an entirely geometric proof, without recourse to cellular homology, of the fact that ∂2=0 in the chain complex defined by a handle decomposition of a given manifold. Topological invariance of the resulting `handle homology' is a consequence of Cerf theory.
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