Simplicial collapsibility, discrete Morse theory, and the geometry of nonpositively curved simplicial complexes

DOI10.1007/s10711-008-9231-7zbMath1221.55017OpenAlexW2044144096MaRDI QIDQ2427424

Katherine Crowley

Publication date: 13 May 2008

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-008-9231-7

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss-Bonnet formulageodesic trianglecollapsingCAT(0) geodesic metric spacecombinatorial geodesiccomparison triangle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Compact (locally compact) metric spaces (54E45) Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) PL-topology (57Q99)

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