Topology of geometric joins

DOI10.1007/S00454-015-9665-2MaRDI QIDQ2340414zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andreas Holmsen, Imre Bárány, Roman Karasev

Publication date 16 April 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0920, http://real.mtak.hu/33515/1/barany.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

colorful Carathéodory theoremcolorful point setsnerve theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20)

Abstract: We consider the geometric join of a family of subsets of the Euclidean space. This is a construction frequently used in the (colorful) Carath'eodory and Tverberg theorems, and their relatives. We conjecture that when the family has at least $d+1$ sets, where $d$ is the dimension of the space, then the geometric join is contractible. We are able to prove this when $d$ equals $2$ and $3$, while for larger $d$ we show that the geometric join is contractible provided the number of sets is quadratic in $d$. We also consider a matroid generalization of geometric joins and provide similar bounds in this case.

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