• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.591-615
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• 2004

In this paper, we provide the algebraic foundations to the theory of relative $\ell$$_1$ homology. In particular, we prove that $\ell$$_1$ homology of topological spaces, both for the absolute case and for the relative case, depends only on their fundamental groups. We also provide a .proof of Gromov's Equivalence theorem for $\ell$$_1$ homology, stated by Gromov without proof [4].

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.77-89
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• 2002

In this paper, we define for a component $X_{0}$ of a nonsingular compact real algebraic surface X the complex genus of $X_{0}$, denoted by gc($X_{0}$), and use this to prove the nonexistence of nonzero degree entire rational maps f : $X_{0}$ Y provided that gc(Y) > gc($X_{0}$), analogously to the topological category. We construct connected real surfaces of arbitrary topological genus with zero complex genus.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.53 no.6
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• pp.1293-1308
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• 2016

In this paper we prove the existence of rational homology balls smoothly embedded in regular neighborhoods of certain linear chains of smooth 2-spheres by using techniques from minimal model program for 3-dimensional complex algebraic variety.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.53 no.3
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• pp.751-763
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• 2016

The properties of the nonabelian tensor products are interesting in different contexts of algebraic topology and group theory. We prove two theorems, dealing with the nonabelian tensor products of projective limits of finite groups. The first describes their topology. Then we show a result of embedding in the second homology group of a pro-p-group, via the notion of complete exterior centralizer. We end with some open questions, originating from these two results.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.1009-1018
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• 2012

Persistence homology (a type of methodology in computational algebraic topology) can be used to capture the topological characteristics of functional data. To visualize the characteristics, a persistence diagram is adopted by plotting baseline and the pairs that consist of local minimum and local maximum. We use the bottleneck distance to measure the topological distance between two different functions; in addition, this distance can be applied to multidimensional scaling(MDS) that visualizes the imaginary position based on the distance between functions. In this study, we use handwriting data (which has functional forms) to get persistence diagram and check differences between the observations by using bottleneck distance and the MDS.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.337-345
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• 2006

John Harer conjectured that the canonical map from braid group to mapping class group induces zero homology homomorphism. To prove the conjecture it suffices to show that this map preserves the first Araki-Kudo-Dyer-Lashof operation. To get information on this homology operation we need to investigate the image of braiding under the Harer map. The main result of this paper is to give both algebraic and geometric interpretations of the image of braiding under the Harer map. For this we need to calculate long chains of consecutive actions of Dehn twists on the fundamental group of surface.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.1069-1077
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• 2013

Several authors investigated the properties which are invariant under the passage from a group to its nonabelian tensor square. In the present note we study this problem from the viewpoint of the classes of groups and the methods allow us to prove a result of invariance for some geometric properties of discrete groups.