Three-dimensional normal pseudomanifolds with relatively few edges
Three-dimensional normal pseudomanifolds with relatively few edges
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具有相对较少边的三维正态赝流形
DOI:
10.1016/j.aim.2020.107035
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Ed Swartz
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作者:
Biplab Basak;Ed Swartz
Let Δ be a d-dimensional normal pseudomanifold, d≥ 3. A relative lower bound for the number of edges in Δ is that g 2 of Δ is at least g 2 of the link of any vertex. When this inequality is sharp Δ has relatively minimal g 2. For example, whenever the one-skeleton of Δ equals the one-skeleton of the star of a vertex, then Δ has relatively minimal g 2. Subdividing a facet in such an example also gives a complex with relatively minimal g 2. We prove that in dimension three these are the only examples. As an application we determine the combinatorial and topological type of 3-dimensional Δ with relatively minimal g 2 whenever Δ has two or fewer singularities. The topological type of any such complex is a pseudocompression body, a pseudomanifold version of a compression body. Complete combinatorial descriptions of Δ with g 2 (Δ)≤ 2 are due to Kalai [12](g 2= 0), Nevo and Novinsky [13](g 2= 1) and Zheng [20](g 2= 2). In all three cases Δ is the boundary of a simplicial polytope. Zheng observed that for all d≥ 0 there are triangulations of S d⁎ R P 2 with g 2= 3. She asked if this is the only nonspherical topology possible for g 2 (Δ)= 3. As another application of relatively minimal g 2 we give an affirmative answer when Δ is 3-dimensional.