Topology of unavoidable complexes

MaRDI QIDQ6271933zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Duško Jojić, Wacław Marzantowicz, Siniša T. Vrećica, Rade Živaljević

Publication date 28 March 2016

Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Embeddings and immersions in PL-topology (57Q35) Equivariant PL-topology (57Q91)

Abstract: The partition number

p i (K)

of a simplicial complex

K s u b s e t 2^{[m]}

is the minimum integer

u

such that for each partition

A_{1} u p l u s l d o t s u p l u s A_{u} = [m]

of

[m]

at least one of the sets

A_{i}

is in

K

. A complex

K

is

r

-unavoidable if

p i (K) l e q r

. We say that a complex

K

is globally

r

-non-embeddable in

m a t h b b R^{d}

if for each continuous map

f : | K | i g h t a r r o w m a t h b b R^{d}

there exist

r

vertex disjoint faces

s i g m a_{1}, l d o t s, s i g m a_{r}

of

| K |

such that

f (s i g m a_{1}) c a p l d o t s c a p f (s i g m a_{r}) e q e m p t y s e t

. Motivated by the problems of Tverberg-Van Kampen-Flores type we prove several results (Theorems 3.6, 3.9, 4.6) which link together the combinatorics and topology of these two classes of complexes. One of our central observations (Theorem 4.6), summarizing and extending results of G. Schild, B. Gr"{u}nbaum and many others, is that interesting examples of (globally)

r

-non-embeddable complexes can be found among the joins

K = K_{1} a s t l d o t s a s t K_{s}

of

r

-unavoidable complexes.

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