Computational topology of equipartitions by hyperplanes

DOI10.12775/TMNA.2015.004MaRDI QIDQ519435zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rade Živaljević

Publication date 4 April 2017

Published in Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1608

zbMATH Keywords

computational topologyequipartitions of massesobstruction theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other problems of combinatorial convexity (52A37) Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35) Finite groups of transformations in algebraic topology (including Smith theory) (55M35) Obstruction theory in algebraic topology (55S35) Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05)

Abstract: We compute a primary cohomological obstruction to the existence of an equipartition for j mass distributions in R^d by two hyperplanes in the case 2d-3j = 1. The central new result is that such an equipartition always exists if d=6 2^k +2 and j=4 2^k+1 which for k=0 reduces to the main result of the paper P. Mani-Levitska et al., Topology and combinatorics of partitions of masses by hyperplanes, Adv. Math. 207 (2006), 266-296. This is an example of a genuine combinatorial geometric result which involves Z_4-torsion in an essential way and cannot be obtained by the application of either Stiefel-Whitney classes or cohomological index theories with Z_2 coefficients. The method opens a possibility of developing an "effective primary obstruction theory" based on $G$-manifold complexes, with applications in geometric combinatorics, discrete and computational geometry, and computational algebraic topology.

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