The mu vector, Morse inequalities and a generalized lower bound theorem for locally tame combinatorial manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2015.04.007zbMATH Open1327.52028arXiv1405.5675OpenAlexW1552628922MaRDI QIDQ499449FDOQ499449

Authors: Bhaskar Bagchi 

Publication date: 30 September 2015

Published in: European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a recent work [2] with Datta, we introduced the mu vector (with respect to a given field) of simplicial complexes and used it to study tightness and lower bounds. In this paper, we modify the definition of mu vectors. With the new definition, most results of [2] become correct without the hypothesis of 2-neighbourliness. In particular, the combinatorial Morse inequalities of [2] are now true of all simplicial complexes. As an application, we prove the following generalized lower bound theorem (GLBT) for connected locally tame combinatorial manifolds. If $M$ is such a manifold of dimension $d$, then for $1leqellleqfracd-12$ and any field $$. Equality holds here if and only if $M$ is $ell$-stacked. We conjecture that, more generally, this theorem is true of all triangulated connected and closed homology manifolds. A conjecture on the sigma vectors of triangulated homology spheres is proposed, whose validity will imply this GLB Conjecture for homology manifolds. We also prove the GLBC for all connected and closed combinatorial 3-manifolds. Thus, any connected closed combinatorial manifold $M$ of dimension three satisfies $$, with equality iff $M$ is 1-stacked. This result settles a question of Novik and Swartz [6] in the affirmative.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5675

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zbMATH Keywords

simplicial complexescombinatorial Morse inequalitieslocally tame combinatorial manifoldsmu-vector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of complexes (57Q05) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

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