The Gromov norm of the product of two surfaces

DOI10.1016/J.TOP.2004.10.007zbMATH Open1064.57014arXivmath/0407176OpenAlexW1965193366MaRDI QIDQ1767609FDOQ1767609

Jesús A. De Loera, Mike Develin, Lewis Bowen, Francisco Santos

Publication date: 8 March 2005

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We make an estimation of the value of the Gromov norm of the Cartesian product of two surfaces. Our method uses a connection between these norms and the minimal size of triangulations of the products of two polygons. This allows us to prove that the Gromov norm of this product is between 32 and 52 when both factors have genus 2. The case of arbitrary genera is easy to deduce form this one.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407176

zbMATH Keywords

simplicial complexesconvex polytopesimplicial volumeminimal triangulationGromov norm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Dissections and valuations (Hilbert's third problem, etc.) (52B45)

Cited In (3)

• On minimal triangulations of products of convex polygons
• The simplicial volume of closed manifolds covered by ℍ²× ℍ²
• Counting equivalence classes of vertex pairs modulo the dihedral action on the associahedron

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