Bier spheres and barycentric subdivision (Q598461)
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Bier spheres and barycentric subdivision (English)
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6 August 2004
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With any proper simplicial subcomplex of an abstract simplex one can associate the so-called Bier sphere. This note provides a short non-recursive proof of the (non-trivial) fact that the Bier sphere is actually a sphere, bringing to light some of the inherent structure of the Bier spheres.
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piecewise linear spheres
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Alexander dual
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