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What is a cohomology?

What is a cohomology? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (mathematics) A method of contravariantly associating a family of invariant quotient groups to each algebraic or geometric object of a category, including categories of geometric and algebraic objects.
  2. (mathematics) A system of quotient groups associated to a topological space.
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Tools for concrete calculations include algebraic K-theory and motivic cohomology.
Two objects that can be deformed into one another will have the same homology and cohomology groups.
At her instigation a number of people then produced a theory of these groups, the so-called homology and cohomology groups of a space.
Deligne used a new theory of cohomology called étale cohomology, drawing on ideas originally developed by Alexandre Grothendieck some 15 years earlier, and applied them to solve the deepest of the Weil conjectures.
We will first study equivariant cohomology on some examples.
In further papers, published in 1936, he defined cohomology groups for an arbitrary locally compact topological space.

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