Compact n-manifolds via (n+1)-colored graphs: a new approach

DOI10.1142/S1005386720000097zbMATH Open1436.57035arXiv1811.08147MaRDI QIDQ5217375FDOQ5217375

Authors: Luigi Grasselli, Michele Mulazzani 

Publication date: 27 February 2020

Published in: Algebra Colloquium (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a representation via (n+1)-colored graphs of compact n-manifolds with (possibly empty) boundary, which appears to be very convenient for computer aided study and tabulation. Our construction is ageneralization to arbitrary dimension of the one recently given by Cristofori and Mulazzani in dimension three, and it is dual to the one given by Pezzana in the seventies. In this context we establish some results concerning the topology of the represented manifolds: suspension, fundamental groups, connected sums and moves between graphs representing the same manifold. Classification results of compact orientable 4-manifolds representable by graphs up to six vertices are obtained, together with some properties of the G-degree of 5-colored graphs relating this approach to tensor models theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08147

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zbMATH Keywords

compact manifoldsfundamental groupscolored graphsdipole moves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

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