On Combinatorial Topology.
On Combinatorial Topology.
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关于组合拓扑。
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.18.1.86
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发表时间:
1932
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
A. Tucker
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作者:
A. Tucker
This note gives a preliminary account of some features of a paper on combinatorial topology to be published in more complete detail at a later date. The terminology and notation are patterned after that of Lefschetz, 1 but the cells {EpI with which we shall deal are of the abstract type considered by Mayer. 2 Theadvantage of using a general type of cell where theincidence numbers 77 may have any integral values, is described by Lefschetz (loc. cit., pp. 104-5). But there is one difficulty, viz., an Ep cancelling out of the chain-boundary of an Ep+ i is not (combinatorially) distinguished from an Ep not on theboundary of Ep+ 1 at all. This can be overcome by introducing a relation telling when an Ep is on the boundary of an E,(p< q). The only connection of this quali-tative relation with the quantitative one of incidence numbers is that ifEp is not on the boundary ofEp+ 1 the incidence number is 0. 1. Open and Closed Sub-Complexes.-A complex K is a set of cells such that the boundary-chain of a boundary-chain is always 0, ie,