Chow group

Meaning

Noun

• 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.

Origin

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