The Homotopy Type of Hyperplane Posets

DOI10.2307/2045379zbMath0565.06001OpenAlexW4254828886MaRDI QIDQ3679239

James W. Walker, Paul H. Edelman

Publication date: 1985

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2045379

zbMATH Keywords

Möbius functionhomotopy typeposetsorder complexshellabilitysimplicial complex of chainsrecursive coatom orderingrecursive atom orderingdissection by hyperplanesopen convex n-cells

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial orders, general (06A06) Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Chain complexes in algebraic topology (55U15) Abstract complexes in algebraic topology (55U05) Polytopes and polyhedra (52Bxx)

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