Affine hom-complexes

DOI10.4171/PM/1984MaRDI QIDQ2520535zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Bakuradze, A. Gamkrelidze, Joseph Gubeladze

Publication date 15 December 2016

Published in Portugaliae Mathematica. Nova Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6870

zbMATH Keywords

affine mapface posethom-complexhom-polytopepolyhedral complexpolytopesimplicial complextensor product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10)

Abstract: For two general polytopal complexes the set of face-wise affine maps between them is shown to be a polytopal complex in an algorithmic way. The resulting algorithm for the affine hom-complex is analyzed in detail. There is also a natural tensor product of polytopal complexes, which is the left adjoint functor for Hom. This extends the corresponding facts from single polytopes, systematic study of which was initiated in [6,12]. Explicit examples of computations of the resulting structures are included. In the special case of simplicial complexes, the affine hom-complex is a functorial subcomplex of Kozlov's combinatorial hom-complex [14], which generalizes Lovasz' well-known construction [15] for graphs.

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Summary: For two general polytopal complexes the set of face-wise affine maps between them is shown to be a polytopal complex in an algorithmic way. The resulting algorithm for computing the affine hom-complex is analyzed in detail. There is also a natural tensor product of polytopal complexes, which is the left adjoint functor for Hom. This extends the corresponding facts from single polytopes, systematic study of which was initiated in [\textit{T. Bogart}, Math. Z. 273, No. 3--4, 1267--1296 (2013; Zbl 1264.52010)] and [\textit{J. Gubeladze} and \textit{J. Love}, Geom. Dedicata 176, 375--399 (2015; Zbl 1319.52018)]. Explicit examples of computations of the resulting structures are included. In the special case of simplicial complexes, the affine hom-complex is a functorial subcomplex of Kozlov's combinatorial hom-complex, which generalizes Lovász' well-known construction [\textit{L. Lovász}, J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 25, 319--324 (1978; Zbl 0418.05028)] for graphs.

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