The Minimal Genus of Homology Classes in a Finite 2-Complex

DOI10.2140/AGT.2022.22.1375MaRDI QIDQ6335169arXivFDO

Authors Thorben Kastenholz, Mark Pedron

Publication date 19 February 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/AGT.2022.22.1375

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Realizing cycles by submanifolds (57R95)

arXiv classification

math.AT math.GT

Abstract: We study surface representatives of homology classes of finite complexes which minimize certain complexity measures, including its genus and Euler characteristic. Our main result is that up to surgery at nullhomotopic curves minimizers are homotopic to cellwise coverings to the 2-skeleton. From this we conclude that the minimizing problem is in general algorithmically undecidable, but can be solved for 2-dimensional CAT(-1)-complexes.

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