Simple homotopy types and finite spaces

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2007.11.019zbMATH Open1146.57034arXivmath/0611158OpenAlexW4210428078MaRDI QIDQ2482053FDOQ2482053

Elias Gabriel Minian, Jonathan Ariel Barmak

Publication date: 16 April 2008

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new approach to simple homotopy theory of polyhedra using finite topological spaces. We define the concept of collapse of a finite space and prove that this new notion corresponds exactly to the concept of a simplicial collapse. More precisely, we show that a collapse of finite spaces induces a simplicial collapse of their associated simplicial complexes. Moreover, a simplicial collapse induces a collapse of the associated finite spaces. This establishes a one-to-one correspondence between simple homotopy types of finite simplicial complexes and simple equivalence classes of finite spaces. We also prove a similar result for maps: We give a complete characterization of the class of maps between finite spaces which induce simple homotopy equivalences between the associated polyhedra. Furthermore, this class describes all maps coming from simple homotopy equivalences at the level of complexes. The advantage of this theory is that the elementary move of finite spaces is much simpler than the elementary move of simplicial complexes: It consists of removing (or adding) just a single point of the space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611158

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zbMATH Keywords

simplicial complexesposetsfinite spacessimple homotopy equivalencesweak homotopy equivalencessimple homotopy types

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial orders, general (06A06) Abstract complexes in algebraic topology (55U05) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

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