Different versions of the nerve theorem and colourful simplices

DOI10.1016/J.JCTA.2019.105125zbMATH Open1428.05336arXiv1807.01005OpenAlexW2964226601WikidataQ127490004 ScholiaQ127490004MaRDI QIDQ2010622FDOQ2010622

Authors: Frédéric Meunier, L. Montejano 

Publication date: 27 November 2019

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

Abstract: Given a simplicial complex and a collection of subcomplexes covering it, the nerve theorem, a fundamental tool in topological combinatorics, guarantees a certain connectivity of the simplicial complex when connectivity conditions on the intersection of the subcomplexes are satisfied. We show that it is possible to extend this theorem by replacing some of these connectivity conditions on the intersection of the subcomplexes by connectivity conditions on their union. While this is interesting for its own sake, we use this extension to generalize in various ways the Meshulam lemma, a powerful homological version of the Sperner lemma. We also prove a generalization of the Meshulam lemma that is somehow reminiscent of the polytopal generalization of the Sperner lemma by De Loera, Peterson, and Su. For this latter result, we use a different approach and we do not know whether there is a way to get it via a nerve theorem of some kind.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01005

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zbMATH Keywords

nerve theoremcarrier theoremhomological Sperner lemmaMeshulam lemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Extremal set theory (05D05)

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