Poincare Proof of Fundamental Theorem of Finitely Generated Abelian Groups
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There are places (including on MSE) online where one may easily find modern proofs of the fundamental theorem of finitely generated Abelian groups. Wikipedia, for instance, mentions a seemingly interesting proof by Poincare
The fundamental theorem for finitely generated abelian groups was proven by Henri Poincaré in (Poincaré 1900), using a matrix proof (which generalizes to principal ideal domains). This was done in the context of computing the homology of a complex, specifically the Betti number and torsion coefficients of a dimension of the complex, where the Betti number corresponds to the rank of the free part, and the torsion coefficients correspond to the torsion part.
Now, I'm not familiar with a ton of the vast study of topological groups, but know a reasonable amount of some basic ideas in groups, representations, topology, and some homology, so I think this proof would be accessible to me, but I can't seem to find it spelled out in any detail online. Stillwell
briefly outlines the proof, but I'd really like to see more explicitly the computation of Betty numbers and Torsion coefficients performed by Poincare, so I was hoping to get a reference for this proof somewhere.
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asked Dec 16 '18 at 6:00
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There are places (including on MSE) online where one may easily find modern proofs of the fundamental theorem of finitely generated Abelian groups. Wikipedia, for instance, mentions a seemingly interesting proof by Poincare
The fundamental theorem for finitely generated abelian groups was proven by Henri Poincaré in (Poincaré 1900), using a matrix proof (which generalizes to principal ideal domains). This was done in the context of computing the homology of a complex, specifically the Betti number and torsion coefficients of a dimension of the complex, where the Betti number corresponds to the rank of the free part, and the torsion coefficients correspond to the torsion part.
Now, I'm not familiar with a ton of the vast study of topological groups, but know a reasonable amount of some basic ideas in groups, representations, topology, and some homology, so I think this proof would be accessible to me, but I can't seem to find it spelled out in any detail online. Stillwell
briefly outlines the proof, but I'd really like to see more explicitly the computation of Betty numbers and Torsion coefficients performed by Poincare, so I was hoping to get a reference for this proof somewhere.
abstract-algebra reference-request
asked Dec 16 '18 at 6:00
Cade ReinbergerCade Reinberger
38317
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I don't think the proof has much to do with topological groups, or even topology and homology. To be fair I have not seen the specific proof but seeing the description ("matrices" and "generalizes to any PID") I'm pretty sure the proof is completely unrelated to to topology. Simply it is explicit and so can be used to perform some homology computations
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– Max
Dec 16 '18 at 11:00
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There are places (including on MSE) online where one may easily find modern proofs of the fundamental theorem of finitely generated Abelian groups. Wikipedia, for instance, mentions a seemingly interesting proof by Poincare
The fundamental theorem for finitely generated abelian groups was proven by Henri Poincaré in (Poincaré 1900), using a matrix proof (which generalizes to principal ideal domains). This was done in the context of computing the homology of a complex, specifically the Betti number and torsion coefficients of a dimension of the complex, where the Betti number corresponds to the rank of the free part, and the torsion coefficients correspond to the torsion part.
Now, I'm not familiar with a ton of the vast study of topological groups, but know a reasonable amount of some basic ideas in groups, representations, topology, and some homology, so I think this proof would be accessible to me, but I can't seem to find it spelled out in any detail online. Stillwell
briefly outlines the proof, but I'd really like to see more explicitly the computation of Betty numbers and Torsion coefficients performed by Poincare, so I was hoping to get a reference for this proof somewhere.
abstract-algebra reference-request
asked Dec 16 '18 at 6:00
Cade ReinbergerCade Reinberger
38317
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There are places (including on MSE) online where one may easily find modern proofs of the fundamental theorem of finitely generated Abelian groups. Wikipedia, for instance, mentions a seemingly interesting proof by Poincare
The fundamental theorem for finitely generated abelian groups was proven by Henri Poincaré in (Poincaré 1900), using a matrix proof (which generalizes to principal ideal domains). This was done in the context of computing the homology of a complex, specifically the Betti number and torsion coefficients of a dimension of the complex, where the Betti number corresponds to the rank of the free part, and the torsion coefficients correspond to the torsion part.
Now, I'm not familiar with a ton of the vast study of topological groups, but know a reasonable amount of some basic ideas in groups, representations, topology, and some homology, so I think this proof would be accessible to me, but I can't seem to find it spelled out in any detail online. Stillwell
briefly outlines the proof, but I'd really like to see more explicitly the computation of Betty numbers and Torsion coefficients performed by Poincare, so I was hoping to get a reference for this proof somewhere.
abstract-algebra reference-request
abstract-algebra reference-request
asked Dec 16 '18 at 6:00
Cade ReinbergerCade Reinberger
38317
asked Dec 16 '18 at 6:00
Cade ReinbergerCade Reinberger
38317
asked Dec 16 '18 at 6:00
Cade ReinbergerCade Reinberger
38317
asked Dec 16 '18 at 6:00
Cade ReinbergerCade Reinberger
38317
asked Dec 16 '18 at 6:00
Cade ReinbergerCade Reinberger
38317
38317
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I don't think the proof has much to do with topological groups, or even topology and homology. To be fair I have not seen the specific proof but seeing the description ("matrices" and "generalizes to any PID") I'm pretty sure the proof is completely unrelated to to topology. Simply it is explicit and so can be used to perform some homology computations
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– Max
Dec 16 '18 at 11:00
add a comment |
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I don't think the proof has much to do with topological groups, or even topology and homology. To be fair I have not seen the specific proof but seeing the description ("matrices" and "generalizes to any PID") I'm pretty sure the proof is completely unrelated to to topology. Simply it is explicit and so can be used to perform some homology computations
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– Max
Dec 16 '18 at 11:00
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I don't think the proof has much to do with topological groups, or even topology and homology. To be fair I have not seen the specific proof but seeing the description ("matrices" and "generalizes to any PID") I'm pretty sure the proof is completely unrelated to to topology. Simply it is explicit and so can be used to perform some homology computations
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– Max
Dec 16 '18 at 11:00
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I don't think the proof has much to do with topological groups, or even topology and homology. To be fair I have not seen the specific proof but seeing the description ("matrices" and "generalizes to any PID") I'm pretty sure the proof is completely unrelated to to topology. Simply it is explicit and so can be used to perform some homology computations
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– Max
Dec 16 '18 at 11:00
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I don't think the proof has much to do with topological groups, or even topology and homology. To be fair I have not seen the specific proof but seeing the description ("matrices" and "generalizes to any PID") I'm pretty sure the proof is completely unrelated to to topology. Simply it is explicit and so can be used to perform some homology computations
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– Max
Dec 16 '18 at 11:00