Bier spheres and barycentric subdivision (Q598461)

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    Bier spheres and barycentric subdivision (English)
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    6 August 2004
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    With any proper simplicial subcomplex of an abstract simplex one can associate the so-called Bier sphere. This note provides a short non-recursive proof of the (non-trivial) fact that the Bier sphere is actually a sphere, bringing to light some of the inherent structure of the Bier spheres.
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    piecewise linear spheres
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    Alexander dual
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