CW complex

A collection of balls of various dimensions, with higher-dimensional ones mapped along their respective boundaries to lower-dimensional ones.

Noun

  1. A collection of balls of various dimensions, with higher-dimensional ones mapped along their respective boundaries to lower-dimensional ones.

Origin

The C stands for "closure-finite", and the W for "weak topology".

Forms

CW complexes

Synonyms

cell complex

Derived

Cayley complex