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       A Primer on Algebraic Topology and Distributed Computing
                by Maurice Herlihy and Sergio Rajsbaum

  Models and techniques borrowed from classical algebraic topology 
have recently yielded a variety of new lower bounds and impossibility 
results for distributed and concurrent computation.  This paper 
explains the basic concepts underlying this approach, and shows how 
they apply to a simple distributed problem.

  This article is _available_ via 
URL: http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/mph/sv.html