Chow group

English

Etymology

Named after Wei-Liang Chow by Claude Chevalley (1958).

Noun

Chow group (plural Chow groups)

1. (mathematics) The Chow groups of an algebraic variety over any field are algebro-geometric analogs of the homology of a topological space. The elements of the Chow group are formed out of subvarieties (so-called algebraic cycles) in a similar way to how simplicial or cellular homology groups are formed out of subcomplexes.

Related terms

• Chow ring