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Title: | Euler characteristics and cohomology for quasiperiodic projection patterns | ||||||
Author: | Irving, Claire Louise |
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0000 0001 3587 091X
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Awarding Body: | University of Leicester | ||||||
Current Institution: | University of Leicester | ||||||
Date of Award: | 2006 | ||||||
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This thesis investigates quasiperiodic patterns and, in particular, polytopal projection patterns, which are produced using the projection method by choosing the acceptance domain to be a polytope. Cohomology theories applicable in this setting are defined, together with the Euler characteristic.;Formulae for the Cech cohomology H?* ( M P ) and Euler characteristic eP are determined for polytopal projection patterns of codimension 2 and calculations are carried out for several examples. The Euler characteristic is shown to be undefined for certain codimension 3 polytopal projection patterns. The Euler characteristic eP is proved to be always defined for a particular class of codimension n polytopal projection patterns P and a formula for eP for such patterns is given. The finiteness or otherwise of the rank of H?m(M P ) ⊗ Q for m ≥ 0 is also discussed for various classes of polytopal projection patterns. Lastly, a model for M P is considered which leads to an alternative method for computing the rank of H?m(M P ) ⊗ Q for P a d-dimensional codimension n polytopal projection pattern with d > n.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.431353 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
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