On configuration spaces and simplicial complexes

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Authors Andrew A. Cooper, R. Sazdanović, Vin de Silva

Publication date 17 October 2019

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://nyjm.albany.edu/j/2019/25-34.html

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zbMATH Keywords

categorificationchromatic polynomialhomologysimplicial complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Graph polynomials (05C31) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

Review text

The \(n\)-point configuration space of a space \(M\) is a well-known object in topology, geometry, and combinatorics. In this article, the authors introduce a generalization, the simplicial configuration space \(M_S\), which takes as its data a simplicial complex \(S\) on \(n\)-vertices, and explore the properties of its homology, considered as an invariant of \(S\). As in Eastwood-Huggett's geometric categorification of the chromatic polynomial, cf. [\textit{M. Eastwood} and \textit{S. Huggett}, Eur. J. Comb. 28, No. 6, 1553--1560 (2007; Zbl 1134.05023)], their construction gives rise to a polynomial invariant of the simplicial complex \(S\), which generalizes and shares several formal properties with the chromatic polynomial.

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