Collapsibility of CAT(0) spaces
Collapsibility of CAT(0) spaces
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DOI:
10.1007/s10711-019-00481-x
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发表时间:
2011-07
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0.5
通讯作者:
Karim A. Adiprasito;Bruno Benedetti
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作者:
Karim A. Adiprasito;Bruno Benedetti
Collapsibility is a combinatorial strengthening of contractibility. We relate this property to metric geometry by proving the collapsibility of any complex that iswith a metric for which all vertex stars are convex. This strengthens and generalizes a result by Crowley. Further consequences of our work are:(1)Allcube complexes are collapsible.(2)Any triangulated manifold admits ametric if and only if it admits collapsible triangulations.(3)All contractibled-manifolds () admit collapsibletriangulations. This discretizes a classical result by Ancel–Guilbault.