Bisimplicial complexes and asphericity

arXiv1804.04630MaRDI QIDQ6300285FDOQ6300285

Publication date: 12 April 2018

Abstract: We present a discrete Morse-theoretic method for proving that a regular CW complex is homeomorphic to a sphere. We use this method to define bisimplices, the cells of a class of regular CW complexes we call bisimplicial complexes. The 1-skeleta of bisimplices are complete bipartite graphs making them suitable in constructing higher dimensional skeleta for bipartite graphs. We show that the flag bisimplicial completion of a finite bipartite bi-dismantlable graph is collapsible. We use this to show that the flag bisimplicial completion of a quadric complex is contractible and to construct a compact K(G,1) for G a torsion-free quadric group.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distance in graphs (05C12) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces (55P20) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

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