A note on the homotopy type of the Alexander dual

DOI10.1007/S00454-014-9606-5zbMATH Open1301.55013arXiv1206.3368OpenAlexW1970006753MaRDI QIDQ742818FDOQ742818

Authors: Jorge Tomás Rodríguez, Elias Gabriel Minian 

Publication date: 19 September 2014

Published in: Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the homotopy type of the Alexander dual of a simplicial complex. In general the homotopy type of K does not determine the homotopy type of its dual K*. Moreover, one can construct for each finitely presented group G, a simply connected simplicial complex K with fundamental group isomorphic to G. We study sufficient conditions on K for K* to have the homotopy type of a sphere. We also extend the simplicial Alexander duality to the context of reduced lattices.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3368

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zbMATH Keywords

latticessimplicial complexesAlexander dualityhomotopy typesBier spheresdeleted joins

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial orders, general (06A06) General topology of complexes (57Q05) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Classification of homotopy type (55P15) Abstract complexes in algebraic topology (55U05) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

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