Manifolds associated with ( Z₂)^n+1-colored regular graphs

DOI10.1515/FORM.2011.052MaRDI QIDQ2882749zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhiqiang Bao, Zhi Lü

Publication date 7 May 2012

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609557

zbMATH Keywords

colored regular graphskeletal expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) Finite transformation groups (57S17)

Abstract: In this article we describe a canonical way to expand a certain kind of $(mathbb{Z}_2{)}^{n+1}$-colored regular graphs into closed $n$-manifolds by adding cells determined by the edge-colorings inductively. We show that every closed combinatorial $n$-manifold can be obtained in this way. When $nleq3$, we give simple equivalent conditions for a colored graph to admit an expansion. In addition, we show that if a $(mathbb{Z}_2{)}^{n+1}$-colored regular graph admits an $n$-skeletal expansion, then it is realizable as the moment graph of an $(n+1)$-dimensional closed $(mathbb{Z}_2{)}^{n+1}$-manifold.

Review text

The authors study a general construction of combinatorial manifolds from graphs, which goes as follows. Let \(\Gamma\) be a connected \((n+1)\)-regular finite graph whose edges are colored with elements in the group \((\mathbb Z_2)^{n+1}\) in a way such that a certain compatibility condition is met. Then, inductively, for \(k=2,3,\dots,n\), each suitably colored \(k\)-regular subgraph of \(\Gamma\) gives rise to a cell to be attached. This yields a combinatorial \(n\)-manifold without boundary which comes with a regular cell-decomposition. From looking at the barycentric subdivision of any finite regular cell decomposition of some manifold one can see that each combinatorial manifold arises this way. The construction is motivated by work of \textit{D. Bliss, V. W. Guillemin} and \textit{T. S. Holm} [Adv. Math. 185, No. 2, 370--399 (2004; Zbl 1069.53058)] on a mod 2 version of \textit{M. Goresky, R. Kottwitz} and \textit{R. MacPherson} [Invent. Math. 131, No. 1, 25--83 (1998; Zbl 0897.22009)] as well as work by \textit{M. W. Davis} and \textit{T. Januszkiewicz} [Duke Math. J. 62, No. 2, 417--451 (1991; Zbl 0733.52006)] on small covers.

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