The geometry of relations

DOI10.1007/S11083-010-9146-4MaRDI QIDQ981684zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elias Gabriel Minian

Publication date 2 July 2010

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702197, http://hdl.handle.net/11336/15074

zbMATH Keywords

collapsesimplicial complexposetfinite spacenerve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) General topology of complexes (57Q05) Algebraic aspects of posets (06A11)

Abstract: There is a canonical way to associate two simplicial complexes K, L to any relation $RsubsetXimesY$. Moreover, the geometric realizations of K and L are homotopy equivalent. This was studied in the fifties by C.H. Dowker. In this article we prove a Galois-type correspondence for relations $RsubsetXimesY$ when X is fixed and use these constructions to investigate finite posets (or equivalently, finite topological spaces) from a geometrical point of view. Given any poset $(X,leq)$, we define the simplicial complexes K, L associated to the relation $leq$. In many cases these polyhedra have the same homotopy type as the standard simplicial complex C of nonempty finite chains in X. We give a complete characterization of the simplicial complexes that are the K or L-complexes of some finite poset and prove that K and L are geometrically equivalent to the smaller complexes K',L' induced by the relation <. More precisely, we prove that K (resp. L) simplicially collapses to K' (resp. L').

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