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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 17 1 c Solution by
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The torus map acts on byIts determinant is one, so it is an orientation-preserving homeomorphism and acts as the identity on both and .
To calculate the homology of its mapping torus, cover the time circle by two arcs. Each inverse image has the homotopy type of , while their intersection has two components of that homotopy type. The map in the Mayer–Vietoris sequence can be writtenAdding the output coordinates and using the input coordinate separates an identity map from . Canceling the identity summands gives the Wang sequence, and henceIn degree one,Its image and kernel are both generated by ; its cokernel is since this image is primitive. Its Smith normal form is , so its torsion subgroup is zero. On the other two nonzero homology groups of the torus, . The displayed short exact sequences split because their right-hand groups are free. ThereforeIn particular, the mapping torus contributes an additional degree-one class from the time circle, as well as the invariant degree-one class in the fiber.
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