Higher connectivity of the Morse complex

DOI10.1090/BPROC/115MaRDI QIDQ5072247zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicholas A. Scoville, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

Publication date 27 April 2022

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10481

zbMATH Keywords

discrete Morse theoryMorse complexhigher connectivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of complexes (57Q05) Abstract complexes in algebraic topology (55U05) Discrete Morse theory and related ideas in manifold topology (57Q70)

Abstract: The Morse complex $mathcalM(Delta)$ of a finite simplicial complex $Delta$ is the complex of all gradient vector fields on $Delta$. In this paper we study higher connectivity properties of $mathcalM(Delta)$. For example, we prove that $mathcalM(Delta)$ gets arbitrarily highly connected as the maximum degree of a vertex of $Delta$ goes to $infty$, and for $Delta$ a graph additionally as the number of edges goes to $infty$. We also classify precisely when $mathcalM(Delta)$ is connected or simply connected. Our main tool is Bestvina-Brady Morse theory, applied to a "generalized Morse complex."

Recommendations

• On the homotopy and strong homotopy type of complexes of discrete Morse functions
• Equivariant discrete Morse theory
• On the topology of simplicial complexes related to 3-connected and Hamiltonian graphs
• Filtered matchings and simplicial complexes
• On the automorphism group of the Morse complex
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1504590
• Complexes of connected graphs
• Discrete Morse theory and the homotopy type of clique graphs
• Discrete Morse theory on graphs
• Discrete gradient fields on infinite complexes

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3772598 (Why is no real title available?)
• A simplicial complex is uniquely determined by its set of discrete Morse functions
• Chessboard Complexes and Matching Complexes
• Combinatorial algebraic topology
• Complexes of directed trees
• Complexes of discrete Morse functions
• Discrete Morse Theory
• Homotopy properties of the poset of nontrivial p-subgroups of a group
• MANIFOLD MATCHING COMPLEXES
• Morse theory and finiteness properties of groups
• Morse theory for cell complexes
• On the automorphism group of the Morse complex
• Rearrangement groups of fractals
• Simple groups separated by finiteness properties
• The braided Thompson's groups are of type F_

Cited in

(6)

• On the automorphism group of the Morse complex
• On the homotopy and strong homotopy type of complexes of discrete Morse functions
• Higher order connections
• Connectivity of \(h\)-complexes.
• Persistent pairs and connectedness in discrete Morse functions on simplicial complex. I
• Foundations of a connectivity theory for simplicial complexes

This page was built for publication: Higher connectivity of the Morse complex

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5072247)