Examples of Z-acyclic and contractible vertex-homogeneous simplicial complexes

DOI10.1007/S00454-001-0057-4MaRDI QIDQ1349282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frank H. Lutz

Publication date 21 May 2002

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-001-0057-4

zbMATH Keywords

evasivenessvertex-homogeneous simplicial complexes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Polytopes and polyhedra (52B99) Equivariant PL-topology (57Q91)

Review text

This paper constructs examples of \(\mathbb Z\)-acyclic vertex-homogeneous simplicial complexes. A primary motivation for this work is the Evasiveness Conjecture for simplicial complexes, which conjectures that the only non-evasive vertex-homogeneous simplicial complexes are simplices. (Non-evasiveness is a stronger property than acyclicity.) One such example, in dimension 11, was first found by Bob Oliver. The current paper finds 7 such examples, one of them in dimension 5, by constructions arising from the spherical dodecahedron space. These examples are the starting point for infinite families of such complexes.

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