A tight colored Tverberg theorem for maps to manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2011.05.016zbMATH Open1232.55003arXiv1107.1904OpenAlexW2162312428MaRDI QIDQ554399FDOQ554399

Authors: Pavle V. M. Blagojević, Benjamin Matschke, Günter M. Ziegler 

Publication date: 4 August 2011

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that any continuous map of an N-dimensional simplex Delta_N with colored vertices to a d-dimensional manifold M must map r points from disjoint rainbow faces of Delta_N to the same point in M: For this we have to assume that N geq (r-1)(d+1), no r vertices of Delta_N get the same color, and our proof needs that r is a prime. A face of Delta_N is a rainbow face if all vertices have different colors. This result is an extension of our recent "new colored Tverberg theorem", the special case of M=R^d. It is also a generalization of Volovikov's 1996 topological Tverberg theorem for maps to manifolds, which arises when all color classes have size 1 (i.e., without color constraints); for this special case Volovikov's proof, as well as ours, work when r is a prime power.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1904

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zbMATH Keywords

equivariant cohomologySerre spectral sequencecolored Tverberg problemdeleted product/join configuration spaceFadell-Husseini index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Extremal set theory (05D05) Helly-type theorems and geometric transversal theory (52A35) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20)

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