Triangulations of surfaces with boundary and the homotopy principle for functions without critical points

DOI10.1023/A:1006556632099MaRDI QIDQ1300259zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yu Burman

Publication date 11 November 1999

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006556632099

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Review text

The author considers triangulations of compact surfaces with boundary and marked points. This is connected with the moduli space of Euclidean structures on the sphere with conical singularities, bifurcation diagrams of quadratic differentials, Teichmüller space and complexity of fiber bundles. Allowing that a vertex may belong to an edge or a face, a more general definition of triangulation is given. Basic transformations called flips are defined and it is shown that two triangulations are connected by means of a finite number of flips (flip equivalence). Later on, an additional structure, marked vertices, are added to triangulations and it is shown that the flip equivalence need not always be satisfied. After considering relations between some spaces and their connected components, and then defining homotopy equivalence between these spaces, the author associates a generic function to each triangulation. In that way homotopy classification of functions not having critical points is reduced to the description of triangulations with marked points up to homotopy and flips.

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