Higher dimensional links in a simplicial complex embedded in a sphere
Higher dimensional links in a simplicial complex embedded in a sphere
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嵌入球体的单纯复形中的高维链接
DOI:
10.2140/pjm.2000.194.465
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发表时间:
2000
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0.6
通讯作者:
Kouki Taniyama
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作者:
Kouki Taniyama
Throughout this paper we work in the piecewise linear category. Conway and Gordon showed in [1] that any embedding of the complete graph over six vertices into the 3-space contains a pair of nontrivially linked circles. We refer the reader to [6], [2], [4], [3] etc. for related works. In this paper we generalize the result of Conway and Gordon to higher dimensions. Let σi j be the i-skeleton of a j-dimensional simplex σj = 〈v1, v2, . . . , vj+1〉 where v1, v2, . . . , vj and vj+1 are the 0-simplices of σj . Let Sk be the kdimensional unit sphere. Let X and Y be disjoint n-dimensional spheres embedded in S2n+1. Then the linking number k(X, Y ) ∈ Z is defined up to sign, see for example [7]. Then the modulo 2 reduction k2(X, Y ) ∈ Z/2Z of k(X, Y ) is well-defined. We note that k2(X, Y ) ≡ k2(Y, X) (mod 2). Let Ln be the set of all unordered pairs of disjoint subcomplices of σn 2n+3 each of which is homeomorphic to an n-dimensional sphere. We note that each element (J, K) of Ln can be written as