Stirling complexes
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Stirling complexes
arXiv ID: 2309.17142
author: Dmitry N. Kozlov
published in: Journal of Applied and Computational Topology
publication date: 2023-06-23T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17142
review text: In this paper the author introduces the so called \textit{Stirling complexes}, which can be viewed as ``natural reconfiguration spaces associated to the problem of distributing a fixed number of resources to labeled nodes of a tree network, so that no node is left empty.'' He proves that such spaces are ``cubical complexes, which can be thought of as higher-dimensional geometric extensions of the combinatorial Stirling problem of partitioning a set of named objects into non-empty labeled parts'' (hence their name). The main result, namely Theorem 2.1, is that ``Stirling complexes are always homotopy equivalent to wedges of spheres of the same dimension.'' Furthermore, the author provides several ``combinatorial formulae to count these spheres.'' Moreover, he obtains the following (somewhat surprising) result that ``the homotopy type of the Stirling complexes depends only on the number of resources and the number of the labeled nodes, not on the actual structure of the tree network.''
reviewed by: Emil Saucan
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57Z99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 55P15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05A18
zbMATH DE Number: 7700998
zbMATH Keywords: Stirling numbers
zbMATH Keywords: combinatorial complexes
zbMATH Keywords: homotopy colimits
zbMATH Keywords: cubical complexes
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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DOI: 10.1007/S41468-022-00096-4
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7700998