Paper 3, Section II, G
Part II, 2012
State the Mayer-Vietoris Theorem for a simplicial complex expressed as the union of two subcomplexes and . Explain briefly how the connecting homomorphism , which appears in the theorem, is defined. [You should include a proof that is well-defined, but need not verify that it is a homomorphism.]
Now suppose that , that is a solid torus , and that is the boundary torus of . Show that is an isomorphism, and hence calculate the homology groups of . [You may assume that a generator of may be represented by a 3 -cycle which is the sum of all the 3 -simplices of , with 'matching' orientations.]