Eliminating higher-multiplicity intersections. II. The deleted product criterion in the r-metastable range

DOI10.4230/LIPICS.SOCG.2016.51zbMATH Open1390.57015arXiv1601.00876OpenAlexW2962842780MaRDI QIDQ3132887FDOQ3132887

Authors: Isaac Mabillard, Uli Wagner 

Publication date: 30 January 2018

Abstract: Motivated by Tverberg-type problems in topological combinatorics and by classical results about embeddings (maps without double points), we study the question whether a finite simplicial complex K can be mapped into R^d without higher-multiplicity intersections. We focus on conditions for the existence of almost r-embeddings, i.e., maps from K to R^d without r-intersection points among any set of r pairwise disjoint simplices of K. Generalizing the classical Haefliger-Weber embeddability criterion, we show that a well-known necessary deleted product condition for the existence of almost r-embeddings is sufficient in a suitable r-metastable range of dimensions (r d > (r+1) dim K +2). This significantly extends one of the main results of our previous paper (which treated the special case where d=rk and dim K=(r-1)k, for some k> 3).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00876

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zbMATH Keywords

simplicial complexestopological combinatoricsTverberg-type problemspiecewise-linear topologyHaefliger-Weber theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of complexes (57Q05) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Embeddings and immersions in PL-topology (57Q35)

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