The covering type of closed surfaces and minimal triangulations

DOI10.1016/J.JCTA.2019.02.005zbMATH Open1439.57033arXiv1712.02833OpenAlexW2963987391WikidataQ125687616 ScholiaQ125687616MaRDI QIDQ2000640FDOQ2000640

Elias Gabriel Minian, Eugenio Borghini

Publication date: 28 June 2019

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The notion of covering type was recently introduced by Karoubi and Weibel to measure the complexity of a topological space by means of good coverings. When X has the homotopy type of a finite CW-complex, its covering type coincides with the minimum possible number of vertices of a simplicial complex homotopy equivalent to X. In this article we compute the covering type of all closed surfaces. Our results completely settle a problem posed by Karoubi and Weibel, and shed more light on the relationship between the topology of surfaces and the number of vertices of minimal triangulations from a homotopy point of view.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02833

zbMATH Keywords

surfacesminimal triangulationscovering type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

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